​Motherhood can be a valuable training ground for developing skills that prove useful in the workplace. However, mothers also face major obstacles to attaining leadership positions.

With millions of U.S. jobs going unfilled, employers looking for workers would be wise to expand their recruiting and hiring efforts to include people with criminal records.

Companies with more than 250 employees must designate a harassment officer whose role is to direct, inform and support employees who are confronting sexual harassment and sexist attitudes.

As more organizations adopt financial-wellness programs, many are coupling modern digital solutions and human support to improve their workers’ financial literacy.

Salary negotiation is becoming more common, though there are discrepancies between how much men and women negotiate.

On April 16, 2019, the United Conservative Party won the provincial election in Alberta, Canada, a victory that is likely to result in pro-business labor law reform.

Uber Technologies Inc priced its initial public offering on Thursday at the low end of its targeted range for a valuation of $82.4 billion, hoping its conservative approach will spare it the trading plunge suffered by rival Lyft Inc.

Japan’s work culture of long hours and strict top-down discipline is changing as unemployment hit a 26-year low, The Japan Times reported. “Companies had created a system that rates you on hours worked, and that’s how you got ahead in the corporate world … Now it’s becoming a question of how you can produce results with limited resources in Japan,” Yoshie Komuro told The Japan Times; Komuro is head of Work-Life Balance Inc., which advises the government on labour reforms.

Facebook Inc quickly rejected a call from co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday to split the world’s largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the U.S. Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation.