Employee Participation

During the first quarter, job absence rates slightly rose, though it remained well below levels recorded before the recession, according to Bloomberg BNA's quarterly survey of job absence and turnover.

Lending to small businesses rose only slightly in July, another sign that companies are hunkering down because of uncertainty about the economy.

The U.N.'s labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 percent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging economies.

The practice of medicine is in the midst of an evolution, and millennial and Gen X doctors seem to be perfectly suited for it and in some ways may be driving it. The federal health care law is speeding some of these changes, too.

South Carolina's unemployment agency is yanking benefits from thousands of people who are not searching for work through its online database.

The Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University predicts the national economy will lag until Congress reaches a long-term agreement on federal taxes and spending.

Fewer weeks of unemployment benefits will soon be available to jobless New Mexicans and the Department of Workforce Solutions says it's because of a change in federal law.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at a seasonally adjusted 374,000, suggesting slow improvement in the job market.