Employment
Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.
The Black jobless rate of 12.2% is nine times the white unemployment level, a far wider gap than elsewhere in the U.S.
Cash assistance and other public benefits are helping more New Yorkers weather an economic climate that’s still tough.
The deadline to apply is April 14. About 100,000 jobs are open for young New Yorkers ages 14 to 24.
Updated state figures show almost 4.7 million jobs, surpassing projections.
Migrants have refused to move from the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, some citing the long commute and destabilizing transfers as detrimental to their efforts to start a new life in NYC.
Packed hotels and budding new businesses can’t hide looming weaknesses like a sagging tech sector and Wall Street’s woes.
December’s economic update shows the city continues to lag national job growth, hitting more headwinds.
The city will bring in eight lawyers, paid for by their private firms but listed as employees of NYC, to plug a shortage. Critics say it’s just a drop in the bucket.
Income tax collections were up in the state, but not in New York City. We explain why.
Documents show the mayor’s counsel readying to recruit pro bono legal staffing from private law firms, as low pay and strict work conditions leave hundreds of jobs vacant.
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A planned overhaul of city workforce training programs aims to help young adults especially hard-hit by pandemic job losses.
These three sectors explain why NYC just can’t get its groove back.
In job ads all but the smallest businesses will have to say roughly how much they plan to pay, and just hanging up a “help wanted” sign won’t get an employer off the hook.
Amendments to a salary transparency law would curb unintended consequences, business leaders claim. But advocates warn it would “gut” the law.
In another sign of recovery, Wall Street bonuses were up 20% over last year.
New technologies and an explosion of remote-work jobs hasn’t stopped the unemployment rate for New Yorkers with disabilities from jumping 10 percentage points since 2019, while funding for support groups has been slashed.
Early signs show momentum to get workers back to their desks in offices — though some employers still have no formal plans to return.
The incoming administration should create a 300-person technical assistance corps to bring one-on-one aid to small firms — especially those owned by New Yorkers of color, a new Center for an Urban Future report found.
The city gained 83,500 jobs in October, the biggest increase in months, as COVID infection rates dropped. But new reports show New York remains one of the most unequal cities in the nation, with the one percent accounting for a rising share of income.
Transit officials are starting to chip away at a worker shortage that has for months caused tens of thousands of bus and subway trips to be canceled or delayed, frustrating passengers. Meanwhile, overtime is rising for bus and subway workers.
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