To gather the fullest employment picture in Alabama – and across the nation for that matter – we must shift our focus to labor force participation. Alabama’s current unemployment rate is at an ...

Alabama now officially has a Department of Workforce. Late Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced the state’s Department of Labor would officially change its name and focus on Feb. 1, with former State Sen.

Thousands of workers and activists will take to the streets on Sept. 1 as part of a nationwide Labor Day mobilization calling for economic justice and corporate accountability. The Workers Over ...

Current and former prisoners are suing Alabama, fast food franchisees and other beneficiaries of the state's prison labor system they say is a “modern-day form of slavery” where incarcerated people ...

An inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) A federal court Tuesday denied a preliminary injunction against Alabama’s state prisons from plaintiffs ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A newly-filed federal lawsuit is taking aim at the State of Alabama, accusing it of denying parole to incarcerated people in order to use those inmates for free labor. The ...

The U.S. Department of Labor is suing South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Co., an auto parts plant and a recruiting company after finding a 13-year-old girl illegally working on an assembly line in ...

Six people incarcerated in Alabama prisons are suing Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Corrections commissioner for forcing them to labor against their will. Plaintiffs Trayveka Stanley, ...

Reuters reported Monday that the Department of Labor has accused a second Alabaman parts supplier with using child labor. The target of the lawsuit, SL Alabama LLC, is a U.S. supplier for Hyundai ...