Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

Illinois' unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in August, the lowest it has been since the start of the Great Recession, but there was little cause to celebrate as most...

The Chicago metro area had nearly 52,000 fewer people living in poverty in 2015 than it did the year before, following national trends as its poverty rate dropped and household...

Adopting? You may wish you worked at Abbott. The north suburban health care company tied for third on an annual list of the nation's top 100 adoption-friendly workplaces, thanks to...

When Boston Consulting Group examined the results of its annual employee survey several years ago, one finding stood out as alarming: Job satisfaction among women was 10 percentage points lower...

Could paid leave to care for elderly parents be the next big corporate perk? Deloitte this week announced a new family leave program that goes beyond the generous maternity and...

Code Platoon, a Chicago nonprofit that puts military veterans through an immersive coding boot camp, graduated its first class this year with high hopes of addressing both tech talent gaps...

Caterpillar is planning 300 job cuts at two downstate facilities, among more than 1,000 mass layoffs Illinois employers reported to the state in August. The layoffs at the two Caterpillar...

A union trying to organize the janitors, baggage handlers, security officers and other low-wage workers at O'Hare International Airport said it filed 80 wage theft complaints Wednesday with the city...