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The retailer brings about 2,000 managers a year to its headquarters to discuss how to relate to workers and customers, part of a U.S. corporate trend. On a stormy afternoon [...]

Back in 2018, with an eye to writing a novel about low-wage work in America, I got a job at a big-box store near the Catskills in New York, where [...]

AUTOMOTIVE Lucid Motors Falls Far Short on Deliveries Lucid Motors, a maker of widely praised electric cars that the company has struggled to mass produce, cut its production target for [...]

The move comes a week after the company announced it was lowering its profit forecast as inflation was catching up with consumer spending. Walmart is laying off 200 corporate workers, [...]

WORK FORCE 1,100 Activision WorkersWill Get Full-Time Status Activision Blizzard, the embattled video game company that recently announced plans to be acquired by Microsoft in a $70 billion deal, said [...]

It was a hot morning in Baton Rouge, La., the day that Peter Naughton woke up on the floor. Sore, disoriented, he'd already grasped what his mother was now telling [...]

The wage increases mean that about half of the company's 1.5 million U.S. workers would earn at least $15 an hour. Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, announced on Thursday [...]

RETAIL Walmart to Increase Pay of 165,000 Workers Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, said on Thursday that it was raising wages for 165,000 of its workers, as it revamps [...]

Companies have long embraced workplace wellness programs as a way to improve workers' health and reduce overall medical spending, but a new study may prompt employers to rethink those efforts. [...]

When Walmart invited me to visit one of its job training programs in late June, I wasn't sure it was a story. But new to the retail beat, I decided [...]

Walmart Stores, the world's largest retailer, laid off 450 workers at its headquarters on Friday as it tries to become more nimble. More than 18,000 people work at the company's [...]

For some time now, Republicans in Congress have given up the pretense of doing anything to improve the lot of most Americans. Raising the minimum wage? They won't even allow [...]

For New Yorkers who crave onion-rosemary marmalade with their crostini, loathe the narrow aisles of the nearest supermarket or simply have no time to shop, Fresh Direct has been like […]

Faced with public demonstrations of discontent by its employees, Wal-Mart Stores has developed a wide-ranging new program intended to show that it appreciates its 1.3 million workers in the United […]

In a rare demonstration, more than 100 Wal-Mart employees rallied yesterday at a store in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., a Miami suburb. They were protesting a new policy on employee absences […]

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and […]

A labor advocate who has recently taken on Wal-Mart plans to run against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, and is basing his campaign […]

As well-meaning legislation goes, it would be hard to beat the law recently approved by the New York City Council over the veto of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It requires certain […]

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. vetoed a measure that would require Wal-Mart to increase spending for workers' health or pay more into a state health insurance fund. The bill, passed […]

More than 400 employees of the Kmart Corporation will lose their jobs as part of a cost-cutting initiative the company announced yesterday. The cuts include 400 employees at Kmart's headquarters […]

In what may be just the first stage of a long effort to reinvent Kmart, the company said yesterday that it would close 284 stores across the country and eliminate […]

Ames Department Stores, the fourth-largest discount retailer, said yesterday that it would close 16 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee and lay off about 1,000 workers while emerging […]

Ames Department Stores said yesterday that it would close 47 stores and lay off about 2,000 employees, or 6 percent of its work force, the second time the company has […]

Seven weeks after Charles C. Conaway took over as chairman and chief executive of the Kmart Corporation, the company announced yesterday that it would take a pretax charge of $740 […]

Within a few weeks this spring, J. C. Penney, Sears and Kmart all announced they were looking for new chief executives. These separate recruiting drives have essentially created a referendum […]

The Southland Corporation said yesterday that its planned closing of distribution and food centers would idle about 1,100 workers. The closures, along with a sale of distribution and food center […]