In the largest published UK pilot, 56 of 61 companies kept the shorter week after the trial ended — and the measured effects on revenue, sick days, and quitting ran in one direction.
Sofia Lindqvist
More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura
The federal law behind mass layoff notices covers most large employers but leaves real gaps, and its penalties are lighter than many workers assume.
Federal law gives most large employers a fixed 60-day window to warn workers before a plant closes or a mass layoff hits. California adds its own version, with its own math on what workers are owed when a company skips it.
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
Sixty days' notice is the whole of the federal promise — and the record shows how often it is narrower, shorter, or unenforced than the phrase suggests.
Sofia LindqvistFederal law lets laid-off workers keep their employer health plan for up to 18 months. It says nothing about making the premium affordable.
David JordanBoeing announced plans in October 2024 to cut about 17,000 jobs — one in ten employees — while 33,000 machinists were on strike over wages, a collision of a restructuring and a walkout with consequences already reaching supplier towns.
Jay Douglas