A former New York state tax department worker was accused of stealing the identities of thousands of taxpayers and running up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges.
Hundreds of workers at a textile factory in southern China blocked roads Tuesday, in a second day of protests over unpaid wages, an employee said.
Prosecutors say a New Jersey horse farm worker charged with hacking two colleagues to death with a machete has confessed on videotape.
Phoenix police say a sanitation worker has been crushed to death in the compactor of his garbage truck.
President Barack Obama might as well be wearing a cape and have a big “W” on his chest that stands for worker.
A government study of about 2,000 Cuban state businesses found that 60 percent of employees came late, left early or otherwise shirked their duties, official media reported Wednesday.
A Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of $5.25 for more than $500 worth of merchandise. Natchez Police Chief Mike Mullins said a 20-year-old cashier was arrested Thursday along with a 22-year-old customer at the Wal-Mart in Natchez.
A woman who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kansas City, Mo., is accused of running an online prostitution business through her government office computer.
Jamaica is working with a real estate company to build affordable homes for tourism workers amid a global economic slump.
A man buried up to his chest by an avalanche of dry cement at an industrial plant was in serious condition Friday after firefighters extracted him from a mound of gray powder, officials said.
The FBI confirmed Wednesday it was investigating allegations that a Louisiana farmer fired shotgun blasts over Mexican guest workers' heads, exposed them to pesticides and paid them less than minimum wage.
Millions of Americans had Labor Day off, but not Lucy Dumas. The 86-year-old Fargo woman did what she's always done: work. Dumas has been earning an income for more than 70 years. "You name it and I've done it," said Dumas, a former Hillsboro cafe owner who now works full-time at a fast-food restaurant.
A ranch worker hired by a Texas lawmaker is a suspected illegal immigrant now wanted in the fatal beating of a young man, authorities said Monday.
This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they've been in years, according to a scorecard released Monday by Rutgers University.
A barista who said he was fired from Starbucks Corp. for helping to organize fellow workers into a union has been given his job back.
American workers' confidence in the job market is as low as it was during the 2001 recession, according to a survey released Thursday.
Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant's utility sink. The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows the unidentified employee taking the bath to celebrate his birthday.
A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency's workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults.
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs.
Thomas, a 60-year old project manager for a construction company, knows there’s a possibility for layoffs at his firm because of the sagging housing market. And Brandon, a customer service representative for a phone company in Oregon that’s about to be bought out by a telecommunication’s giant, fears his days may be numbered.
The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds.
Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms.
Oil-rich Gulf nations, already facing labor protests, are getting new pressure from India, which wants them to pay minimum wages for unskilled workers.
An Amtrak train struck and killed a person a half-mile away from a New Hampshire station on Friday night, a day after another train accident killed a track worker in Providence.
A former worker in the city's troubled police crime lab was indicted Tuesday on charges of theft and tampering with drug evidence, officials said.