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Fast-food burrito chain Chipotle will raise menu prices to cover the rising cost of labor to attract Americans back to work after the Democrats continued with the extra-generous jobless benefits, the company announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) as President Joe Biden’s secretary of the Department of Labor in a 68–29 vote.

President Joe Biden’s Labor Department announced Wednesday that it would not enforce a Trump-era rule that barred 401(k) plans from using political considerations when investing employee funds.

Joe Biden has named a legal advocate for LGBTQ rights and a former Planned Parenthood executive to serve in his administration.

Atheists have blasted new guidelines on religious exemptions for federal contractors issued by the Trump administration this week.

Joe Biden claims that he “beat the socialist” in the Democratic primary, but the socialist could be joining him in his Cabinet if he wins on Tuesday.

U.S. pension funds invested in Chinese firms are financing slave labor, stated Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government.

Two sectors were basically immune to the shutdown layoffs: finance and the federal government.

The India-based NASSCOM business lobby is asking the Department of Labor to help the lobby keep its huge workforce of Indian H-1B temporary workers in American jobs throughout the coronavirus crash, according to a report in the Times of India newspaper.

Target will give its employees wage increases, bonuses, and paid leave to help them through the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the company said Friday. 

President Donald Trump’s administration has spent 2019 making significant strides in accomplishing his America First agenda.

More than one million employees could see a fatter paycheck in 2020 as the federal government is overhauling overtime pay requirements for the first time in 15 years.

Oracle filed a lawsuit against the Department of Labor (DOL) Wednesday, challenging an Obama-era decision that held Oracle had discriminated against women and minorities.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to lead the Department of Labor. 

Bloomberg Law reporter Benjamin Penn is facing a barrage of criticism — even from far-left corporate media — over a hit piece in which he falsely claimed a recently-hired Trump official wrote antisemitic comments on social media in August 2016.

The Labor Department produced a Labor Day video to highlight the American worker and the accomplishments of the Donald Trump administration.

A DOL rule will “clarify the civil rights protections afforded to religious organizations that contract with the federal government.”

President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Eugene Scalia – a former Labor Department senior official and son of the iconic late Justice Antonin Scalia – to be the next secretary of labor, following the resignation of Alex Acosta.

Actor John Lithgow recited a poem lambasting the Trump administration, seemingly inspired by outgoing Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s past legal deal with embattled billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Author, journalist, and filmmaker Mike Cernovich told Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday that the establishment media only has an interest in the Jeffrey Epstein court battles in order to attack President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump may appoint an “immigration czar” to coordinate the government’s fractured authority over border security, asylum law, the labor supply, and visas, according to a report by the Associated Press. 

“We’re seeing wages rise more than they have at any time for a long long time,” Trump said. “I’m happy about that.”

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta said on Monday that the Trump administration has launched a new website to encourage young Americans to consider trade apprenticeships as a viable alternative to a costly and often debt-inducing college education.

Multinational corporation Oracle America, Inc., a computer technology firm, discriminated against black American employees and women in favor of hiring foreigners, primarily from Asia and India.

In June, DeVos said it was her hope that adopting some of the education policies of these nations would “help catch us up” to students from other countries.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday the Hispanic unemployment rate sunk to a new record low in the month of July. 

“Rather than equip an individual to pursue whatever goal he sets for himself as part of his God-given freedom, this is, instead, the German model being pushed by misguided business interests and some state interests,” she explained. “As a result, the type of education an individual would receive would be influenced by crony corporations dictating to schools the skills needed for future workers.”

The Donald Trump administration released a new rule on Tuesday which expanded Association Health Plans (AHPs), which was lauded by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as the “biggest free-market health care reform in a generation.”

Labor Department figures published Friday show the U.S. economy expanded by 223,000 jobs in May, with the black unemployment rate — among the brightest spots in the strong jobs report — at 5.9 percent, down from 6.6 percent record low the previous month.

The U.S. added 223,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent, according to Labor Department figures published on Friday. Economists forecasted 190,000 additional nonfarm payrolls, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.9 percent. Manufacturing performed strongly,

Georgia attorney general Chris Carr spearheaded a coalition of 14 states this week in applauding Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta’s efforts to allow small businesses to become eligible to participate in Association Health Plans (AHPs) and urging an expansion of the program to be open to more American small business owners. 

Hartogensis is married to the sister of McConnell’s wife Elane Chao. Chao is also the Secretary of Transportation in Trump’s cabinet.

Alfredo Ortiz and Thomas Price write in USA Today that the Department of Labor is going to be able to offer small businesses a measure of relief from spiraling health care costs.

American manufacturing expanded at a stronger pace than expected in January, close to the fastest pace since 2004.

The number of American workers receiving unemployment benefits has fallen to its lowest level in 44 years, according to government sources.

U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in December, a modest gain but still enough to suggest that the economy entered the new year with solid momentum.