Labor & Workforce

Beauty industry professionals are reimagining education. After Indiana allowed apprenticeships as a pathway to licensure, some advocates want to take it one step further.

The US labor market has slowed in the last few months. Just 22,000 jobs were added nationally in August. A local expert says the picture is similar in Louisville.

Securing a job after incarceration can be a barrier for some people re-entering society. Two groups in Indiana came together to help give justice-involved Hoosiers a second chance at employment.

The U.S. job market showed more signs of weakness Friday, as the Labor Department reported just 22,000 jobs added in August. Revised figures show the economy lost jobs in June, for the first time since the pandemic winter of 2020.

The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce says the state could help more residents enter the workforce — and boost one of the nation's lowest workforce participation rates — by addressing ballooning costs for child care and access to those services.

The United Auto Workers union has preliminarily won a razor-thin election at a fourth electric vehicle battery plant in the U.S.

Hourly workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park will soon hold a union vote. The decision comes amid bitter tensions between workers and the company over safety and health issues.

In the aftermath of a raid at a Louisiana racetrack, Kentucky's equine community is worried about what increased immigration enforcement could mean for the industry's workforce.

One week ahead of a union vote, the first electric vehicle battery rolled off the assembly line at the BlueOval SK campus in Hardin County.

According to one analysis, the annual earnings of a full-time worker in Kentucky now fall below the poverty threshold.