The Fed raised rates — retirees and near-retirees should do this

Retirees have to watch their spending, especially after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike announced on Wednesday.  For the third time in a row, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it would rais...

Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push

Meta Platforms is planning to cut expenses by at least 10% in the coming months, in part through staff reductions, as the social-media giant confronts stalling growth and increased competition, accord...

Fed approves third large interest rate hike and signals more before year-end

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stepped up its aggressive fight against high inflation by agreeing to the third straight super-sized increase in interest rates and signaling more big hikes before the...

Social Security’s retirement age is 70

An informal survey of staff at the Center for Retirement Research asking “What is the current retirement age for Social Security?” produced a range of responses.  About half — mostly the “old hands” —...

Almost 100 Facebook janitors laid off as Silicon Valley service-worker cuts continue

Nearly 100 Facebook janitors were laid off from the tech giant’s California offices Friday, two months after being told their jobs would be safe. The number of job cuts was actually supposed to be clo...

FedEx to Close Offices, Park Aircraft After Warning of Sales Shortfall

Updated Sept. 15, 2022 5:42 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) FedEx said its quarterly revenue fell below its expectations and it was closing offices and parking aircraft to offset declining volumes...

Railroads and labor unions reach tentative deal to avert strike

Railroads and workers’ unions reached a tentative labor agreement early Thursday to avert a national rail strike that threatened to shut a major segment of the U.S. transportation network. The l...

Rail Strike Averted After White House Brokers ‘Tentative’ Deal—Here’s What You Need To Know

Topline Major freight rail companies and unions have struck a tentative deal to avert a damaging national rail strike, President Joe Biden announced early Thursday morning, a boon for his administrati...

Carriers won’t lock out workers, negotiators meet with Labor secretary

Negotiators from railroad carriers and unions met in Labor Secretary Marty Walsh’s office Wednesday as the sides tried to negotiate a deal ahead of Friday’s strike deadline. The meeting st...

Goldman Sachs Is Preparing Layoffs. Tech Isn’t the Only Industry Cutting Jobs.

Text size Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to reports. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to media r...

Senators introduce the next retirement savings proposal – the EARN Act

The EARN Act is the latest addition to the lineup of proposals legislators have put forth to bolster retirement savings.  Senators Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, and Mike Crapo, a Republican from ...

Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership

Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...

American Airlines Looks Toward Pilot Contract After ‘Solid’ Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend travelers make their way through American’s Miami hub on Saturday Sept. 3. (Photo … [+] by Joe Raedle) Getty Images Upbeat American Airlines CEO Robert Isom took a victor...

Labor Day air travel clears 2019 levels as airlines cap a rocky summer

Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C. Leslie Josephs | CNBC The rocky summer travel season ended on a high note during Labor Day weekend with a surge in air travelers and relatively smooth oper...

More Than A Dozen Killed In 15 Mass Shootings Over Labor Day Weekend

Topline More than a dozen people were killed, while 58 people were injured in 15 mass shootings across the country during Labor Day weekend, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, as the U.S...

Bed Bath & Beyond Finance Chief Gustavo Arnal Found Dead

By Ginger Adams Otis and Ryan Felton Updated Sept. 4, 2022 7:00 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Bed Bath & Beyond Chief Financial Officer Gustavo Arnal was found dead Friday after falling from...

Enough, Bosses Say: This Fall, It Really Is Time to Get Back to the Office*

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Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets

The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...

Must be ‘fit and active’ or ‘digital native’: how ageist language keeps older workers out

Ageism is wrong. Age discrimination is illegal. But if you are or have been an older job seeker and you suspect your age is a barrier to getting job offers, your instincts aren’t wrong. “Ageism is a r...

Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation

Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...

Facebook and Snap Stock are Both Cheap. Why Shares May Still Struggle.

Social media may be the most influential innovation of the 21st century. In 2022, if an event doesn’t make it to a social feed, it never really happened, like the tree that falls in a forest with no a...

Bitcoin, Ethereum Jump As Jobs Report Ease Labor Market

The job numbers for the month of August were released. Bitcoin and Ethereum prices jumped as a result of this report. The labor department reported that the United States added 315,000 jobs in August....

New CEO of Starbucks — a ‘world-class leader,’ says Howard Schultz — will do a stint as barista

Starbucks Corp.’s soon-to-be chief executive is a “world-class leader” with deep knowledge of consumer-product companies and will spend time as a barista to get to know the company, the coffee chain’s...

I Salute American Labor

Workers making rubber footwear at the the B. F. Goodrich Company factory in Akron, Ohio, USA, circa … [+] 1935. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) Getty Images As many Americans celebrate La...

Stocks Rally As Labor Market Cools Slightly, Taking Some Pressure Off The Fed

Topline The stock market moved higher on Friday after the August jobs report came in slightly lower than expected and dropped significantly from last month, which helped ease investor concerns that a ...

Retirees want to go back to work — but they’re worried about this

While more than three in 10 U.S. retirees say they would be motivated to rejoin the workforce if inflation continued to eat into their savings, 43% of retirees see their age as a barrier to getting a ...

3M Plans Job Cuts to Rein in Expenses as Legal Troubles Grow

Text size 3M suffered a legal setback last week when a judge denied a motion that would have limited payouts. Alamy 3M , the maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape, plans to eliminate jobs in a cost-c...

Car shopping over Labor Day weekend? Here’s what you can expect

Newsday Llc | Newsday | Getty Images In pre-pandemic years, Labor Day sales events offered generous discounts on new cars as dealerships aimed to clear out current-year models and start selling the ne...

Prepare For Labor Day With Three Food Processing Stocks

. Food Processing Stocks Recent News Innovation in food processing technology and an upsurge in the demand for processed food are expected to drive the market over the next few years. The industry is ...

California Braces For 115 Degree Weather Over Labor Day Weekend—With Death Valley Forecasted To Hit 124

Topline More than 55 million people in California were placed under heat alerts on Wednesday as the state prepares for record-shattering high temperatures over the Labor Day weekend. More than 55 mill...

A Different Labor Day Story

In “A River Runs Through It”, the Reverend Maclean laments that often we are least able to help … [+] those we are closest to. So too, on Labor Day 2022, those who want to work most ...

I set up a company with friends. It has sales of $1 million. Two partners hijacked control of the bank accounts, and want to push others out. What can we do?

I went into business with friends operating a night market. We hold big events every two weeks. We started an LLC as equal members, all with a 25% share. Friend A had the idea to do it and said they w...