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The $741 billion measure passed with a veto-proof majority, setting up a potential showdown with President Trump in the final weeks of his term. WASHINGTON -- The House overwhelmingly passed [...]

Republicans said they would not add a repeal demanded by President Trump of a legal shield for social media companies, and Democrats said they were prepared for a veto showdown. [...]

The Met is offering many employees their first paycheck in months if their unions agree to long-term cuts. The Metropolitan Opera has offered to start paying many employees who have [...]

The city became the second in the nation to create a compensation standard for ride-hailing drivers, after New York. The Seattle City Council approved a minimum pay standard for Uber [...]

The Labor Department proposal would most likely treat drivers and other gig workers as contractors, not employees. The Labor Department on Tuesday announced a proposal that could deem millions of [...]

The framework, unlikely to be taken up before the election, proposes protections for athletes who have asserted themselves during the pandemic and sought more ways to earn money. College athletes [...]

The Chicago Teachers Union and the city's new mayor failed to reach a contract deal. Classes were canceled for 300,000 public school students on Thursday. CHICAGO -- Teachers in Chicago [...]

ZAMOSC, Poland -- Four years ago, Agnieszka and Adam Kowalczyk were struggling. They both had full-time jobs -- she as a teacher and he as an electrician -- yet month [...]

The players, who were locked out this summer by management, ratified a new one-year contract that leaves some questions. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which locked out its musicians over the [...]

First, it was teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. Then hotel workers at nearly two dozen Marriotts and grocery employees at Stop & Shop locations in the Northeast. Now [...]

SACRAMENTO -- There were two guests of honor at the monthly meeting of the Oakland Rotary club in November 2015: the University of California marching band and a sports economics [...]

DoorDash is the most popular food delivery service in the country, a freakishly fast-growing unicorn valued at $7 billion just six years after its founding, backed by some of Silicon [...]

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com . Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be edited. Fish/Pond Arbitrage [...]

Talk about a master class in ''How They Do Things in Albany.''To keep a legislative pay increase but lose new restrictions on lawmakers' outside income, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is [...]

INCHEON, South Korea -- As President Trump leads a drive to slash taxes and pare back regulation, one major economy is taking a different approach.Under President Moon Jae-in, South Korea [...]

After winning a $50,000 raise and becoming the highest-paid state legislators in the country, lawmakers in New York, one might think, would turn their focus to the people's work.Instead, the [...]

Give one group of New York officials a pat on the back, and another inevitably slaps you in the face.It was good news that a special pay committee recommended that [...]

President Emmanuel Macron did what he had to do on Monday after a month of massive grass-roots protests, going on national television to acknowledge that he had been out of [...]

PARIS -- Faced with violent protests and calls for his resignation, President Emmanuel Macron of France said Monday that he had heard the anger of the many whose economic suffering [...]

When it comes to Albany, every labored step out of the ethical muck is something to celebrate.For this reason, it was a relief on Thursday that a committee set up [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox. ]State legislators in New York are poised to get a long, long-awaited pay raise [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA new contract with Marriott International that will give housekeepers in San Francisco an eventual $4-an-hour increase and better protections against sexual harassment was approved Monday, ending a nine-week [...]

This is part of a series on what is at stake in New York's primary elections on Thursday, Sept. 13, and in the general election on Nov. 6. Albany is [...]

On Thursday, a weeklong walkout by teachers in Arizona resulted in a major victory, as the state's governor approved a 10 to 20 percent wage increase and a significant investment [...]

Laws prohibiting employers from asking job candidates about their past compensation before making a salary offer are gaining momentum, aimed at reducing pay disparities and other obstacles confronting women and [...]

Good Thursday. Here's what we're watching: Why Walmart is raising its hourly wage. South Korea spooks the market for digital money. Bond market investors feel some fear, but will stock [...]

The Obama administration had an idea it thought would help address the pay gap between white men and almost everyone else: requiring companies to report how much they paid people, [...]

Job-hopping is one of those time-honored traditions on Wall Street and often provides a way for a banker, trader or executive to get a better title and higher pay. Inevitably, [...]

Finally some details. On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a reasonably detailed budget for the year 2018. Since no one thinks that President Trump is a conventional Republican, this is [...]

ALBANY -- In late February 2016, the Republican leader of the New York State Senate, John J. Flanagan, sent a letter to the chamber's secretary outlining a series of stipends [...]

ALBANY -- Diane J. Savino, a state senator from Staten Island, is not the chairwoman of the New York State Senate's Codes Committee. But that has not prevented her from [...]

LOS ANGELES -- ''Victory!!!'' With that single aggressively punctuated tweet, Phillip Iscove, a creator of the Fox drama ''Sleepy Hollow,'' summed up what Hollywood writers seemed to be feeling on [...]

PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- The United States women's hockey team is going from one tough battle off the ice to a big challenge on it. On Tuesday, the players reached an [...]

A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the [...]

When State Senator Bill Perkins won a special election last week for an empty seat on the New York City Council, he became the first in a wave of state [...]

After a disastrous showing in the Republican presidential primaries and getting booted from the Trump transition team, Gov. Chris Christie returned home last month to the comfort of his power [...]

Workers in New York State who receive their wages on prepaid cards will gain consumer protections next year that advocates say are among the strongest in the nation. The new [...]

THIS summer the Department of Labor is expected to introduce new rules to restore overtime pay to millions of Americans -- rules that require no congressional approval. From the fearful [...]

ALBANY -- Twenty thousand times the average cost of a pound of shredded cheese. Roughly 27 percent of the estimated price of a 2016 Ferrari. Or $4,600 more than Yogi [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed several bills into law on Friday during a ceremony in City Hall's ornate Blue Room, using multiple black pens that he presented to dignitaries and [...]

The City Council voted on Friday to give its members a raise of nearly a third over their current base salaries, the first pay bump for elected officials in New [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce on Wednesday a $15-an-hour minimum wage for New York City's public work force that city officials said would be among the highest [...]

BOSTON -- President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican [...]

It is a confounding truth about outsize executive pay -- all past attempts to rein it in have failed. So why does anyone expect a different outcome from the Securities [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe chief executive of General Electric raked in a $37.3 million pay package last year, a large sum by any standard. But how much larger was it than the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Stymied by Republicans in Congress, President Obama has drafted an executive order to force any company that contracts with the federal government to issue paid leave to employees [...]

Hillary Clinton gave her first big economic speech on Monday, and progressives were by and large gratified. For Mrs. Clinton's core message was that the federal government can and should [...]

Illinois will not be allowed to pay state workers in full during a budget impasse, a Cook County judge ruled Tuesday, leaving some 65,000 employees without a paycheck as lawmakers [...]

JULY is to internships what March is to college basketball. Tens of thousands of interns have descended on New York, Washington, Los Angeles and other internship capitals with the hope [...]

The Labor Department's new proposal to update the overtime-pay rules would give millions of American workers a toehold in the middle class. By raising the salary threshold for overtime, which [...]