Labor

“Spot,” a robotic sheepdog, is being trained to help farmers around the world cope with labor shortages.

Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus.

The formal launch of the Conservative Party’s election pledges Sunday centered around the key plank of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s campaign: making Brexit happen. Speaking to a friendly crowd, Johnson trashed his opponents — most notably the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, his prime rival — and claimed that his Conservatives are the sole party in next month’s election that...

Shawn Johnson is getting honest about her labor experience. The former Olympic gymnast gave birth to a beautiful baby girl earlier this month. Johnson, who is married to husband Andrew East, has been candid about her journey to motherhood. Now, in a beautiful post, the former gymnast revealed the reasons she felt guilty about undergoing a c-section after her 22-hour...

President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after a stinging Supreme Court defeat on adding a citizenship question to the census, multiple people familiar with the conversations told NBC News. While Trump has previously expressed frustration with the 81-year-old Ross, in particular over failed trade negotiations, Ross’s long personal relationship...

U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is resigning amid criticism for his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case while he was the U.S. Attorney in Miami.

Outgoing U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta and President Donald Trump told reporters Friday why Acosta is leaving the administration amid fallout over Acosta’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case years ago at the U.S. Attorney in for the Southern District of Florida.

U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta addressed the media Wednesday to discuss how his department handled the Jeffrey Epstein case while he served as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida

The Trump administration revoked on Friday an Obama-era rule that aimed to terminate federal funding to for-profit college programs that consistently left graduates with high student debt. Department officials announced that the 2014 gainful employment rule will be rescinded effective July 1, 2020. The agency’s announcement said the rule focused too narrowly on graduate earnings and unfairly targeted for-profit colleges.

Britain’s upstart Brexit Party failed in its first attempt to win a seat in Parliament, narrowly losing early Friday to the left-of-center Labour Party in a special election. Labour candidate Lisa Forbes won the Peterborough constituency in eastern England by 683 votes over the Brexit Party’s Mike Greene. Forbes said the Brexit Party’s defeat “shows that the politics of division...

British lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal by a huge margin Tuesday, plunging U.K. politics into chaos 10 weeks before the country is due to leave the European Union. The House of Commons voted 432-202 against the deal struck between Britain’s government and the EU in November. The defeat leaves May’s leadership wobbling and the government with just...

A settlement was reached in the long-running civil lawsuit involving financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls.

The Port of San Diego and city leaders have secured a crucial piece of land for the San Diego Convention Center expansion project.

A new citizens’ initiative launched Monday is renewing calls to expand downtown San Diego’s convention center.

The push to expand the San Diego Convention Center will get a big boost, city leaders are expected to announce Thursday.

The Labor Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday that Camp Bootcamp Inc., a weight loss and fitness chain doing business as the Camp Transformation Center, was cited for more than $8.3 million for multiple alleged wage theft and labor law violations involving hundreds of employees who worked in 15 locations throughout Southern California.

A new citizens’ initiative launched Monday is renewing calls to expand downtown San Diego’s convention center.

NBC 7’s Gene Cubbison reports on a citizen’s initiative that plans to improve various aspects of San Diego, including the downtown convention center.

A Chula Vista councilmember and former Chula Vista mayor is calling for the resignation of a local labor leader amid allegations of sexual assault.

A county employee filed a lawsuit alleging UFCW Local 135 President Mickey Kasparian sexually assaulted her on many occasions.