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Kris Armijos, left, and Oscar Santos participate March 7, 2017, in an English as a second language class at the Latino Union workers center in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood.

Illinois businesses prepare for possibility of dramatic immigration raids

June 5, 2018 at 4:37 p.m.

President Donald Trump's plans to aggressively enforce the nation's immigration laws haven't specified what that will look like inside the workplace, prompting some employee rights groups to dust off decade-old...

In this July 8, 2015, photo, United Airlines planes are parked at their gates as another plane taxis past them at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

Illinois layoffs: United sheds 300 managers; Sears, Recycled Paper Greetings also make big job cuts

June 5, 2018 at 4:52 p.m.

United Airlines is laying off about 300 management positions at its Willis Tower headquarters as part of a restructuring. United CEO Oscar Munoz said in January that "a relatively small...

Illinois attorney general warns CareerBuilder, other job-search firms about age bias

June 5, 2018 at 6:13 p.m.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is warning Chicago-based CareerBuilder and five other national job-search companies that some of their online search functions exclude older workers and could violate age discrimination...

Yolobe co-founder David Douglas (right) speaks to Schurz High School students as part of a pilot program to test Yolobe in Chicago, February 17, 2017.

A LinkedIn for Chicago’s youth? Yolobe looks to connect kids with opportunities

June 5, 2018 at 8:48 p.m.

Chicago youth venturing into the wilderness of young adulthood soon will have a new tool to connect them to jobs and training opportunities. Yolobe, which aspires to be a LinkedIn...

Pallavi Verma, senior managing director for the Midwest at Accenture, is photographed Jan. 31, 2017, at the consulting giant's Chicago office. Verma leads more than 10,000 employees across 13 Midwestern states.

Accenture’s new Midwest chief is optimistic about the workplace of the future

June 5, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

Though officially a Gen Xer, Pallavi Verma boasts some hallmarks of a baby boomer. She still uses Hotmail. She has worked at Accenture for 29 years, pretty much her entire...

Loyola University graduate students vote to unionize

June 6, 2018 at 12:49 a.m.

Graduate students working as teaching and research assistants at Loyola University Chicago have voted by a modest margin to unionize, marking one of the first grad student union elections since...

Toni Ross works at Food and Paper Supply Co. on Jan. 27, 2017, in Chicago's Grand Crossing neighborhood. Ross has worked at the food service distributor for 27 years; she was hired through a youth program and is now store manager. The business' co-owner is slated to speak at a forum on youth unemployment Jan. 30, 2017.

Report says youth unemployment chronic, concentrated and deeply rooted

June 6, 2018 at 4:27 a.m.

Chicago is making scant progress in its ongoing battle against rampant youth joblessness, new statistics show, though there is a modicum of good news. The share of 20- to 24-year-old...

Isaura Martinez, 50, leaves her basement apartment in Cicero on Jan. 23, 2017, to deliver a baked pie to a customer of her home bakery. She is one of the plaintiffs in lawsuit against van drivers, staffing agencies and currency exchanges that alleges temp workers are being unlawfully charged for rides.

Lawsuits allege staffing agencies, currency exchanges scheme against factory workers

June 6, 2018 at 4:48 a.m.

During the pre-dawn quiet, as most of Chicago sleeps, the city's Little Village neighborhood is busy with vans. They creep slowly down rain-slicked 26th Street, sharklike, picking up a lone...

The U.S. Supreme Court shown in June 2014.

Workplace lawsuits could rise under Trump, but Supreme Court still a wild card

August 21, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

Workplace lawsuits targeting employers' pay practices have been on the rise for years, some yielding massive settlements, but a major Supreme Court decision expected this year could reverse that trend...

Illinois loses 16,700 jobs in December, but finishes 2016 better than it began

June 6, 2018 at 6:34 a.m.

Illinois ended 2016 with 28,400 more jobs than it had when the year started, though a big job drop in December didn't help the cause. The state lost 16,700 jobs...

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