The Latest Breaking News from Labor Department

Consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from 12 months earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The annual inflation rate likely eased somewhat in April, but not enough to meaningfully reduce the burden on lower-income Americans.

For the past year, America’s job market has run like a well-engineered machine, adding an impressive average of 540,000 workers a month despite a punishing inflation rate, Russia’s ruinous war against Ukraine, a still-risky pandemic, jittery financial markets and the prospect of much higher borrowing costs

More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of people collecting jobless aid is at its lowest level in more than 50 years

The stock market gained as investors await the outcome of the Fed's two-day meeting and digest a report signaling a tight labor market.

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board. Unionizing has also picked up at colleges, non-profits and pot dispensaries.

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Fidelity Investments recently became the first major retirement-plan provider to allow investors to include a bitcoin account in their 401(k).

President Biden's nomination of David Weil as head of the Labor Department's all-important Wage and Hour Division died on April 7 when Weil voluntarily withdrew his name from consideration.