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Top company perks: Student-debt reimbursement, ‘Yay Days,’ parental leave

December 5, 2019 at 12:47 p.m.

Your company may offer a 401(k), but will it ship your breast milk home while you're on the road? Zillow's breast milk shipments, among the real estate website's perks for...

Mesirow’s privacy rooms offer respite for employees battling cancer

June 11, 2018 at 5:06 a.m.

Diana Ware kept brushing away tears as she showed off the new "privacy rooms" at Mesirow Financial, cozy retreats where employees battling cancer, either as patients or caregivers, can take...

Chris Jones, his fiancee Toni Turner and their children Aaron, 11, Charles, 10 and 10-months-old Baylis, pack their groceries into reusable plastic bags in checkout lines at Walmart store on 7535 S. Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Monday, June 15, 2015.

Six months in, Chicago’s plastic bag ban a mixed bag

June 12, 2018 at 3:05 a.m.

In the six months since Chicago's plastic bag ban went into effect, Jordan Parker, an environmentalist and critic of the city's bag ordinance, has lobbied aldermen to give it more...

Seth Unger, second from right, and Jack Newell, right, with workers who helped install their Wabash Lights project between Adams and Monroe in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016.

Wabash Lights public art test to begin next week

June 11, 2018 at 7:12 a.m.

Wabash Lights, an ambitious public art project that will add shots of color to the underside of the "L" tracks downtown, is scheduled to begin its beta test next week,...

A sign reading "No! To poverty wages at Loyola" was brought to a union organization committee meeting at the Berger Park Cultural Center on Jan. 14, 2016, in Chicago. Loyola instructors voted voted 142-82 to join SEIU Local 73 on Jan. 27.

Loyola faculty votes to unionize

June 11, 2018 at 7:35 a.m.

A group of Loyola University Chicago's adjunct and nontenured instructors has voted to form a union, the latest in a string of successful organizing efforts among faculties at private colleges...

Employees say the biggest stresser at work is not having clear expectations of what their bosses want.

Unclear expectations the top source of stress amid workplace change

June 11, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

Job stress jumps when there is change at work — a near constant in today's environment — and employees say the most stressful part is not knowing what managers expect...

Johnathan Allen, 24, from left, David Elam, 25, and Antonio Monix, 23, testify at a hearing on youth unemployment hosted by the Chicago Urban League on Jan. 25, 2016.

Nearly half of young black men in Chicago out of work, out of school: report

June 12, 2018 at 2:45 a.m.

Nearly half of young black men in Chicago are neither in school nor working, a staggering statistic in a bleak new youth unemployment report that shows Chicago to be far...

A security guard checks people in at the Kraft Heinz headquarters in Northfield on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. About 700 workers were laid off following the merger of the two companies.

With 3,000 jobs lost in 2015, Illinois employment outlook sluggish

May 25, 2019 at 1:04 p.m.

Illinois ended 2015 with fewer jobs than it started with, a state agency reported Friday, signaling the state's employment landscape remains sluggish amid a broad national recovery. Illinois lost an...

At a union organizing meeting Jan. 14, 2016, in Chicago, Matt Williams talks about his experience at Loyola University. Williams, a full-time nontenure-track lecturer in sociology, realizes that a contract and annual salary leave him better off than adjuncts. But he hopes a union will help secure a more reasonable teaching load and greater job security.

More private universities are unionizing. Will Loyola?

June 11, 2018 at 6:18 a.m.

As Loyola University's spring semester gets underway, some instructors have more than lesson plans on their minds. A vote count scheduled for Wednesday will reveal whether 326 adjunct and full-time...

A federal judge has ordered a Chicago limousine company to pay nearly $400,000 in overtime back pay and damages for failing to pay drivers for time spent cleaning their cars and waiting for customers.

Limo company must pay nearly $400,000 for overtime violations

June 12, 2018 at 3:07 a.m.

A federal judge has ordered a Chicago limousine company to pay nearly $400,000 in overtime back pay and damages for failing to pay drivers for time spent cleaning their cars...

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