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Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle with his cat, Zoe, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., in August 2016. Pacelle resigned on Feb. 2, 2018, in the face of multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle resigns after sexual harassment allegations

August 22, 2019 at 2:39 a.m.

Humane Society of the United States chief executive Wayne Pacelle resigned Friday amid sexual harassment complaints and a backlash by major donors. The announcement of Pacelle's departure comes one day...

Microsoft's announcement that it will allow employees to sue the company for sexual harassment has handed the #MeToo campaign an important victory.

Microsoft hands #MeToo major victory by allowing workers to sue over sexual harassment

December 15, 2018 at 5:40 a.m.

Microsoft's announcement that it will allow employees to sue the company for sexual harassment has handed the #MeToo campaign an important victory after months of revelations about predatory behavior and...

Dozens of protesters rally outside the Rock n Roll McDonald's at 600 N. Clark St. in Chicago to demand $15 per hour pay, Wednesday, May 25, 2016.

52 and making $28,000 a year: The ‘roaring’ economy is still failing part-time workers

December 17, 2018 at 12:36 p.m.

Newton Ingram typically begins his workday at 5 a.m., sorting packages at a UPS plant. Four hours later, he clocks out, slips home for a nap and then starts a...

Companies can’t find workers to rebuild after Harvey and Irma

June 2, 2018 at 2:31 a.m.

After Hurricane Irma pounded the Florida Keys, flooding waterfront homes and shredding docks, Brett Ekblom's phone kept ringing with homeowners desperate to rebuild — and fast. "I'm hearing from people...

President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017. A coalition of more than 90 civil rights groups is preparing to challenge the Trump administration's decision to halt an Obama-era initiative aimed at fighting employer discrimination against women and minorities.

Trump’s White House froze an equal-pay rule. Women are fighting to save it.

June 2, 2018 at 3:41 a.m.

A coalition of more than 90 civil rights groups is preparing to challenge the Trump administration's decision to halt an Obama-era initiative aimed at fighting employer discrimination against women and...

Orenthro Walker assembles a bumper on an SUV at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas. Automakers say importing fewer foreign auto parts could actually hurt U.S. jobs.

Push for all-American cars will kill American jobs, auto suppliers say

June 2, 2018 at 7:10 a.m.

The car you drive might come from Detroit. But the rearview mirror could be a product of China. The speaker could be Japanese. The dashboard camera? Potentially Korean. The Trump...

Female workers still make less money as a group than their male counterparts.

The gender wage gap just shrank for the first time in a decade

June 2, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

Last week, the Census Bureau reported some bright news: Middle-class incomes rose last year to the highest level ever recorded, a long-awaited sign of healing from the Great Recession. Along...

Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou, left, and Gov. Scott Walker hold the Wisconsin flag to celebrate their $10 billion investment to build a display panel plant in Wisconsin, at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday, July 27, 2017.

Foxconn deal would cost Wisconsin $230,700 per worker

June 3, 2018 at 3:41 a.m.

The new Foxconn factory will stretch 20 million square feet, the size of eleven football fields - and Wisconsin will shell out serious cash for it, if all goes according...

This June 5, 2017, photo, shows the exterior of a Whole Foods Market in Andover, Mass. Amazon'ss move to purchase Whole Foods has some people worried about a decline in consumer choice.

Union tells FTC Amazon Whole Foods purchase threatens closures, consumer choice

June 3, 2018 at 6:38 a.m.

Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, sees Amazon the way some Rust Belt workers see global trade — as a threat to American jobs....

In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump greets workers during a visit to the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis.

Carrier factory where Trump touted saved jobs is laying off hundreds

June 4, 2018 at 5:47 p.m.

Carrier, the company President Donald Trump pledged to keep on American soil, informed the state of Indiana this week that it will soon begin cutting 632 workers from an Indianapolis...

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