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Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a $741 billion defense authorization bill Friday with a veto-proof majority, defying President Donald Trump's repeated threats to scuttle legislation that covers [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The Senate is poised to send a $741 billion defense authorization bill to President Donald Trump's desk with veto-proof majorities in both chambers of Congress, [...]

Byline: Paul Kane WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., formally announced Tuesday evening that he was for the annual Pentagon policy bill, before he will turn against the [...]

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. [...]

Byline: Eric Yoder WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has dropped its call for a 1% federal employee pay raise in January, advocating instead for a freeze on pay rates for [...]

Byline: Amiram Barkat Nov. 23Israel's Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum for the Average Salary Law in an attempt to avert a sharp rise in budgetary costs following the [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Cassie Kuhn Oct. 23A proposal by a Decatur lawmaker that would give teachers a pay raise but require them to attend five additional days of professional development during the [...]

Byline: AIRDRIE, ALTA., ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead Premier Jason Kenney says his government's political staffers have taken a 7-per-cent pay cut and he's using that as a warning to the province's [...]

Byline: Stacy Wescoe New overtime rules were scheduled to go into effect Oct. 3 that change the salary threshold of those eligible to receive overtime compensation in Pennsylvania. Jerry Oleksiak, [...]

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 [...]

Sept. 23-- Sep. 23--Join the conversation () It often seems like no one in government can get on the same page. The president clashes with Congress. The Senate wars with [...]

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 [...]

Byline: ANDREA YU, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead The question I have been applying for so many jobs since I was laid off in March, but the ones [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman A subcontractor that hired field technicians to install cable, phone and internet for Cox Communications customers misclassified the workers as independent contractors, a U.S. District Court [...]

Byline: By, Emma Munbodh It's 'D-Day' for millions of furloughed workers who will find out if they're at risk of redundancy today, experts have warned. All firms looking to lose [...]

Byline: Rupert Jones The owner of Topshop and Topman has backed down and agreed to pay full salaries to head office staff facing redundancy -- three weeks after the Guardian [...]

Byline: BRUCE MacLELLAN, ETHAN TECLU Lead Bruce MacLellan is CEO at Proof Strategies and chair of the program advisory committee of the bachelor of public relations program at Humber College. [...]

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 charges levelled against these nurses,to enforce COVID-19 lockdown regulations, are clearly aimed at preventing them from organizing and speaking out against low wages and terrible working conditions. 'Zimbabwean authorities [...]

Byline: By, Linda Howard & Brett Gibbons Regulations for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme changed last week with the introduction of 'flexible furlough' on July 1. The rule change means [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Executives of major grocery store chains will be summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee this summer to explain to members of Parliament [...]

May 20-- May 20--AMMAN -- In accordance with Defence Order No. 6 of 2020, the Ministry of Labour on Wednesday decided to levy fines on a number of institutions that [...]

Byline: BARRY WILNER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs because of the [...]

Byline: Peggy McGlone WASHINGTON - The furloughing of the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra has been averted with a restructured contract that will result in $4 million in savings, [...]

Byline: Peter McGuire March 13-- Mar. 13--A bill to improve overtime protections for salaried workers in Maine failed to win support from a legislative committee Thursday, leaving final passage of [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy The Supreme Judicial Court is set to grapple with the question of whether an employer's officers and executives can be individually liable for the company's violations of [...]