Chicago Jobs

Patt Morrison Asks: U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

2011-09-03 00:00:00

Ahigh school counselor in La Puente once told Hilda Solis' mother that the girl really ought to forget about college and become a secretary. Well, so she has. Hilda Solis is the U.S. secretary of Labor. The daughter of factory workers and ardent union...

Patt Morrison Asks: Memorial man Peter Walker

2011-09-10 00:00:00

Berkeley landscape architect Peter Walker has designed bigger projects than the 9/11 memorial in New York, but probably none has carried more weight. The opening of the eight-acre plaza Sunday marks 10 years since the terrorist attacks, and almost as many...

Romney's jobs record a little shaky

2011-07-10 19:59:00

Mitt Romney stood before a shuttered steel factory in Pennsylvania the other day, using the iconic backdrop to underscore what has become the most forceful theme of his presidential campaign: the need for more jobs. "He has done everything wrong," Romney...

Home-care hiring: Developing a good working relationship

2011-07-15 00:00:00

Megan Cowles' friends envy her good luck. "Everyone wants my job," she says. This summer, her employer is taking her to Paris, where she'll see the Eiffel Tower, stroll along the Seine and eat buttery, melt-in-your-mouth croissants for breakfast. Her...

What's at stake in the debt-limit talks: a primer

2011-07-13 06:09:00

Answering questions about the debt-ceiling talks and what could happen if both sides fail to reach an agreement: What is the federal debt ceiling? In 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I, Congress authorized the Treasury to issue long-term bonds to...

Smartphoning campaign donations

2011-07-28 00:00:00

Something strange is happening: a California state agency is developing an innovative, user-friendly idea that can be implemented easily and quickly. It's creative and, so far, non-controversial. And it can become a reality without the governor or...

Obama's biggest challenge: Jobs

2011-08-07 00:00:00

The central question facing Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign is this: Can the president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many of them have lost theirs? Last week, after another run of bad economic news, the president and his staff...

Weekly remarks: Obama warns no quick fix on the economy; GOP's Kinzinger asks where the jobs are

2011-06-11 04:36:08

John Boehner's debt demand: 'Spending cuts need to be larger than the increase in the debt limit itself'

2011-06-12 16:37:30

Whittier psychologist charged with bilking nearly $1 million from government

2011-06-14 21:35:50

Blowback: Don't trust E-Verify on immigration enforcement

2011-06-13 16:35:41

U.S. Department of Labor fines California farm labor firms for unsafe conditions, wage violations

2011-06-13 16:34:57

A job fair at the Park Ridge Community Center in Park Ridge, Ill. As economic conditions worsened, cases of abusive head trauma among young children rose, reported researchers in the journal Pediatrics.

2011-09-19 10:54:24

James Beyer has returned to the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw as senior counsel in its Labor and Employment department. He comes from Accenture, where he was director of labor and employment law since 1998. Before that, Beyer was senior employment law counsel for IBM.

2011-09-18 22:00:00

California�s unemployment rate averaged 12.4% in 2010. In July, there were 2.2 million unemployed in the state, and unemployment was at 12%. One-third of the unemployed � about 727,000 people � have been out of work for a year or more, and many have exhausted their unemployment benefits.

2011-09-13 21:00:04