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• Obama signs equal-pay bill
  President Barack Obama signed an equal-pay bill into law Thursday before cheering labor and women leaders who fought hard for it and the woman whose history-making lawsuit gave impetus to the cause.January 29, 2009
• Iowa slaughterhouse manager faces charges
  Nearly a thousand new charges have been filed in the state's prosecution of alleged child labor violations at a northeast Iowa kosher meatpacking plant.January 27, 2009
• Minnesota unemployment rises to 6.9 percent
  Minnesota continued to shed thousands of jobs in December, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.9 percent. But, some sectors are still adding jobs. Those were some of the headlines today from the Department of Employment and Economic Development, which released its latest jobs report Thursday.January 22, 2009
• Ameriprise Financial plans 300 layoffs in Minnesota
  Ameriprise Financial plans to cut about 300 jobs in Minnesota. The Minneapolis-based financial services company revealed the cutbacks in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.January 20, 2009
• Ecolab laying off 1,000 workers, 100 in Minn.
  Ecolab has announced it is laying off about 1,000 workers, including 100 in Minnesota. The job cuts are part of a larger restructuring the company is undertaking.January 14, 2009
• Avoiding Facebook faux pas in the workplace
  Instead of just seeing coworkers in the office hallway, employees are now running into their colleagues in cyberspace. And that kind of interaction can get a bit tricky.January 14, 2009
• Ford plant offers new round of buyouts for employees
  Approximately one third of the remaining UAW union members at Ford's St. Paul plant are eligible for a new round of buyouts.January 14, 2009
• Unemployed may see expanded subsidized health care
  Minnesotans who have lost a job could more easily sign up for state-subsidized health care under a bill introduced in the Minnesota House.January 14, 2009
• Alliant, G&K Services announce layoffs
  Minnetonka-based G&K Services and Eden Prairie-based Alliant Techsystems have both announced layoffs this week.January 9, 2009
• Minn. unemployment fund headed for deficit
  Increased unemployment rates and shrinking payrolls are putting pressure on a fund that pays benefits to unemployed people in Minnesota.January 9, 2009
• State unemployment program offers extended hours
  For the next few weeks Minnesota's Unemployment Insurance Program is offering its online service on Sundays.December 26, 2008
• Unease at the office
  The threat of layoffs makes every employee nervous, and creates a tense and gloomy workplace. Many workers are trying to be more flexible in an effort to save their jobs, while employers are figuring out how to keep workers informed about impending cuts. Midmorning looks at what the recession is doing to the American workplace.Midmorning, December 24, 2008
• Minnesota's jobless rate jumps to 6.4 percent
  The job market continues to get tougher for Minnesotans as the recession deepens. Minnesota lost another 10,500 jobs in November and the state's unemployment rate spiked 10 6.4 percent.December 18, 2008
• Employers cut 533,000 jobs in Nov.
  The government says employers axed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years, and the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent.December 5, 2008
• UAW to renegotiate labor terms with Big Three automakers
  A United Auto Workers official says the union has agreed to restart contract talks with the Detroit Three automakers and delay their payments into a union-run health care trust.December 3, 2008

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