The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises ...

According to Labor Department data, in August, nearly 2 million people in the U.S. faced long-term unemployment, defined as ...

Data from states show that initial unemployment claims filed by federal government workers have jumped up this month.

The Department of Labor said Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus continue to slow the economy. The new figures ...

More than 10,000 federal employees work in Maine, not including postal workers, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.