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Minerva Becerril, izquierda, ve telenovelas con su madre Gorgonia Becerril Rocha, porque ofrecen "un rato de calma".

Menos sexo, más audiencia: la pandemia reanima a las telenovelas mexicanas

August 3, 2020 at 9:45 a.m.

El romance de México con el melodrama había terminado. Después de décadas de reinado supremo en los horarios de máxima audiencia, las icónicas telenovelas del país perdían espectadores. Los ejecutivos...

Minimum wage fight may heat up after new study finds jobs, hours fell in Seattle

June 3, 2018 at 12:52 p.m.

It's one of the core questions in the debate over minimum wage: Does hiking the pay floor lead businesses to cut hours and jobs? A much-anticipated study released Monday by...

Lorie James of Hawthorne worked for L.A. County for 26 years, but quit last year because she kept being passed up for promotions.

Why are so many women dropping out of the workforce?

August 18, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Mari Villaluna never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. The 36-year-old spent a decade building up a resume as a career counselor and tutor in San Francisco schools after serving...

Workers install a grill on a truck at a General Motors plant in Flint, Mich. The company announced in August that it would cut 2,000 factory jobs in Michigan and Ohio in 2017.

Trump tapped the misery of factory workers, but can he bring back their jobs?

August 21, 2019 at 8:56 p.m.

Michael Smith is not used to stretching a paycheck. As recently as March 2015, the 42-year-old was earning nearly $100,000 a year as a district manager on oil fields for...

McDonald's has settled a case with workers who said they were subject to labor violations at franchisee-owned stores. The company agreed to pay $3.75 million to workers who alleged that several Bay Area McDonald's stores miscalculated their pay, denied them overtime, and did not compensate them for cleaning their uniforms, according to documents filed Friday in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

McDonald’s to pay $3.75 million in dispute over worker pay at franchise restaurants

June 9, 2018 at 5:59 a.m.

For the first time, McDonald's has settled a case with workers who said they were subject to labor violations at franchisee-owned stores. The company agreed to pay $3.75 million to...

Truck driver Scott Spindola maneuvers his big rig around the Shippers Transport Express yard in Carson.

Self-driving trucks threaten one of America’s top blue-collar jobs

August 21, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

Trucking paid for Scott Spindola to take a road trip down the coast of Spain, climb halfway up Machu Picchu, and sample a Costa Rican beach for two weeks. The...

The freighter MN Baroque during the first crossing test at lock Agua Clara in the extended Panama Canal.

$5.4-billion expansion of Panama Canal could reshape world trade routes

August 21, 2019 at 6:54 p.m.

The colossal freighter, guided by a pair of tug boats that looked like gnats in comparison, eased toward the entrance of the Panama Canal, the storied passageway traversed more than...

Athena Goytia, 2, plays in the backyard of her family’s home in La Puente. Her mother, Maria, is on paid family leave, but her father, Anthony, had to take another job to make up for the lost income.

Why so few take paid parental leave

June 10, 2018 at 3:22 p.m.

A day after Alex Gustafson's wife gave birth to their daughter in December, he officially began the 12 weeks of fully paid family leave offered by Automattic Inc., the San...

Bloomberg data show white and Asian males make an average of $22,000 more than their colleagues with MBAs.

Whites, Asians, males see more rewards from business school degree

June 12, 2018 at 3:14 a.m.

For most people, going to business school leads to bigger paychecks. But you'll likely get the most out of the degree if you're a white or Asian man, Bloomberg data...

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