T. Shawn Taylor

Michelle Mathious Jordan would like to exchange a gift she recently received for her 9-month-old son. But she's afraid to go to the mall. "I don't want to set myself...

At work, Connie Fako, a divorced single mother living in Palatine, is director of operations for the central region at IBM. At Palatine High School, Fako is "room mother," "varsity...

Business travel has its perks, from staying at nice hotels and eating in fancy restaurants to racking up frequent-flier miles and sightseeing. And that can be fun. But truth is,...

Now there is a union for the inner-activist in you, and its focus is collection action, not collective bargaining. The nation's biggest labor federation is forming a quasi-union called Working...

The term "family-friendly workplace" is taking on a whole new meaning. According to a recent study by Randstad North America, an international staffing firm, 73 percent of employees said it...

Monday was the last day for the public to comment on the Department of Labor's proposed new rules for who gets (and doesn't get) time and half for overtime. It...

Standing outside Gate D at Wrigley Field on a recent weekday afternoon, Derek, a financial consultant who did not give his last name, was trying to be incognito in a...

The wage gap--the difference between the income of working men and women--is smaller than it has ever been. In 2001, women as a group earned 76.3 cents for every male...

For the first time in years, a proposal to expand the reach of Illinois' equal pay law has a good chance of approval under the new Democratic regime in Springfield,...

To cheers of "Solidaridad," the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union announced a mammoth initiative to push for immigration-law reform. Borrowing themes from the civil rights movement of the 1960s,...