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Sam Covelli, the owner of several western Pennsylvania Panera Bread restaurants is paying for allegedly discriminating against African-American workers. The franchisee will pay Guy Vines, a former employee who is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit $10,000 and $66,000 in attorneys’ fees as part of the settlement. He’ll also pay out an ext...

Whether the walk-off in New York this week will have impact remains to be seen, but the dispute is continuing to echo on social media....

While the unemployment rate declined, the low number of new jobs created indicates continuing struggles for the U.S. economy.The U.S. economy added only 96,000 jobs in August, according to the monthly employment report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor.The number fell short of expectations; economists surveyed by...

The number of entry-level employees in workforce has not been this low since 1955, one report says.The unemployment rate may have gone down slightly in August, but that was in part because more people have given up looking for jobs. More concerning, however, is the fact the shrinking labor force is losing the very job seekers that are supposed to...

Once a rite of passage to adulthood, summer jobs for teens are disappearing....