This is What Job Seeker Bargaining Power Looks Like
More than half of employed job seekers think their current employer will ask them to stay and make a counteroffer if they resign Employers to Employees: Please Don’t Go! Instead of asking workers to leave,
Jobs Are Plentiful Across the Nation
10 States Hit Highest Job Openings Rates in Their History There are 11.3 million job openings nationwide, and the U.S. labor market is tighter than ever, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
January 2022 Had the Tightest Labor Market on Record
Today’s JOLTS report underscores how remarkable the current labor market climate is. It is the tightest labor market on record, with nearly 5 million more job openings than unemployed Americans. And the Great Resignation continues,
The Jobs Recovery Accelerated as Omicron Faded
Quotes may be attributed to Julia Pollak, Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace The U.S. economy added 678k jobs in February as Omicron faded, soundly beating expectations. Totals for the prior two
Are Unions Making a Comeback?
A New Generation Could Revitalize Union Efforts in the U.S. Union membership has steadily declined in the U.S., from 20.1% of the workforce in 1983 to 10.3% in 2021. The number of major work stoppages
The Labor Force Participation Rate for Persons With a Disability Is Nearly 2 Percentage Points Higher Than Pre-pandemic
Labor force participation dropped sharply at the start of the pandemic, and has still only partially recovered. Most population groups have seen substantial declines in employment and labor force participation. But there are a few
Pennsylvania Saw the Lowest Number of Layoffs in the Nation’s History
Only 1.1 million people — 0.8% of all U.S. employees— lost their jobs in December, according to the nationwide Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey. That is the lowest number of people laid off in
Why Ongoing Labor Shortages Could Boost Employment and Earnings for African Americans
Labor shortagLabor shortages have played an outsized role in black American history, from slavery to the world wars to the present. Although labor shortages in the early colonies formed the rationale for bringing enslaved Africans
Despite Disrupting Employment in Multiple Ways, Omicron Barely Dented the Jobs Recovery
Over the past 16 months, there has been a strong relationship between daily new Covid cases and employment. If that relationship had continued to hold true even as daily new Covid cases surged to 800,000
COVID-19 Vaccines and Unemployment Benefits—A State-by-State Breakdown
States that Will Provide Unemployment Benefits to Workers who Quit or are Fired Because they Refuse to Get Vaccinated Note: Some data on this page may be out of date. Please check with your state