Hiring Picked Up Last Month, A Relief For An Economy Desperate For Workers U.S. employers added 559,000 jobs last month, as the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.1% in April. Employers say they could use even more workers as demand surges and pandemic fears recede.
Employers Can (Mostly) Require Vaccines For Workers Returning To The Office Guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says employers can legally require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the office. But workers can claim exceptions.
KUOW Newsroom Pierce County executive vetoes hazard pay for grocery workers Grocery workers in unincorporated Pierce County may not see $4-an-hour hazard pay bonus despite the County Council's approval. Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier vetoed the proposal this week
A Sign Of Hope After 'Winter Hibernation': Employers Add 379,000 Jobs Meanwhile, the unemployment rate dipped to 6.2% last month as the winter wave of coronavirus infections eased.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warns Of Long Road Ahead To Recover Millions Of Lost Jobs Powell warned it will take time to put millions of jobless Americans back to work, while also downplaying inflation threats.
Morning Edition Millions Are Out Of A Job. Yet Some Employers Wonder: Why Can't I Find Workers? Some businesses are struggling to find workers even as millions are unemployed, as the pandemic has made this a recession like no other.
Seattle Now Seattle Now: The uncertain future of Boeing A recent congressional investigation into two fatal 737 Max plane crashes blamed “cost cutting” and a “culture of concealment” at Boeing. Seattle’s aviation giant faces a tough journey to restore trust and rebuild its future.
KUOW Newsroom Amazon job growth to shift beyond Seattle Amazon says 7,000 of the 8,400 corporate and tech jobs it has available in the Puget Sound region are in the city of Seattle. But that
Job Gains Slowed Again In August As Employers Added 1.4 Million Jobs Fewer jobs were added to the economy last month even as the unemployment rate fell to 8.4%. Job growth has slowed since June in a sign of what could be a long and painful recovery from the recession.
KUOW Newsroom Boeing layoffs hit amid progress on unemployment backlog ‘We don't know how many workers are next.’
