Below is an email sent March 18, 2020 to employers by the State of Michigan. COVID-19 Announcement State Provides Guidance to Employers Contemplating Potential Layoffs…Read more
UIA, Michigan Works! Urge Residents to Avoid Offices and Use Online Resources LANSING, MICH. To mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak, the Unemployment Insurance Agency and Michigan Works!…Read more
Today the Michigan Governor Whitmer allowed expanded reasons for collecting unemployment benefits to include job displacement because of some COVID-19 Coronavirus issues. Which for those…Read more
If a professional sports team like the Los Angeles Dodgers can’t make money selling $15 cheese burgers to a captive audience with minimum wage employees…Read more
Why aren’t there more American Cruise Ships you ask? The short answer is that it costs a lot, because it must conform to United States…Read more
So the big strike that everyone is waiting for with the UAW hasn’t happened yet. However a group of workers that are employed through Aramark…Read more
For six years the internet group Fight for Fifteen has been organizing fast food employees to go on strike in an effort to get $15…Read more
More artistic fields like photographers, actors, and marketing require more of a portfolio over a traditional resume. This is a prime example of creating a…Read more
In one of the countries most confusing labor laws; today marks Michigan’s effective minimum wage pay to $9.45 per hour up from $9.25 for non-tipped…Read more
We haven’t posted a round up post of the general health of the labor market in quite some time. Partly because mass layoffs dramatically slowed…Read more