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How Work-From-Home Has Spurred Blue-Collar Americans to Shift Careers

The pandemic shift to working at home has spurred blue-collar Americans -– who’ve largely been left out of that trend -– to seek a career change. A new study by the Oliver Wyman Forum found that the desire for more …

Biden Order Targets Occupational Licensing, Noncompetes, Worker Data Sharing

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order that will reduce the ability of employers to prevent workers from going to rival firms and remove some of the state occupational licensing requirements that make it harder to land a …

Not All Workers Have Same Options for Avoiding Virus

A barber in Beijing is supporting his wife and child by charging food and other expenses to a credit card while he waits for his employer’s shop to reopen. A waiter at a barbecue restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, washes …

BP Executives Sought to Blame ‘Blue Collar Rig Workers’ for Gulf Oil Spill: U.S.

BP executives wanted to concentrate blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on “blue collar rig workers” in order to save themselves, U.S. government lawyers wrote in a court document that until Thursday was partially redacted. According to the …