Last year saw no shortage of conflict between labor and management, with half a million American workers on strike at some point during the year, double the figure of 2022 and four times that of 2021.

The Office of Personnel Management last week issued new guidance aimed at helping federal agencies reinstitute forums for management and federal employee unions to work collaboratively to solve ...

Kaiser Permanente's tentative deal with labor leaders means the health system's historic labor-management partnership survives another pivotal moment in the group's history. Still, it's in a fragile ...

Not a subscriber? Apply online today. Managing labor has never been an easy task. In the months leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak, U.S. companies were dealing with persistent, historically-low ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic finally started to wane, we ventured into a world that was slowly returning to some semblance of “normal.” But as we returned to our favorite restaurants, retail shops, and ...

QSPC data through Q3 2024 shows that approximately 20.6% of manufacturing plants in the U.S. that failed to produce at their full capacity cited insufficient supply of labor or labor skills as a key ...

Labor gives rise to design. As the aggregate of physical and mental effort used in the creation of goods and services, labor is tied to both what we create and our process. In a field shaped by ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, our company shifted to a four-day compressed workweek arrangement, supposedly to help contain the spread of the virus. The company consulted us regarding the ...