Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Connecticut last week compared with the week prior.

Connecticut, like other states, hopes to add recently fired federal employees to its state workforce, though a recent slowdown in hiring has complicated that effort. Amid a wave of federal layoffs and ...

The federal government cut 4,000 jobs last month, and another 11,000 in February, according to the Labor Department's ...

Victoria Kates, 34, of New Britain, pleaded guilty in Hartford to offenses related to her fraudulent receipt of COVID-19 ...

The staffer is Marko Elez, a Department of Labor employee detailed to the DOGE entity within the White House, according to a ...

Connecticut’s real gross domestic product grew 1.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with a national rate of 2.4%.

Despite the loss of those federal jobs, employment in the public sector held steady at 234,600, and government employment is ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! May your baseball-related hopes spring eternal this week—for lo, the winter is past, Opening Day is almost here, and the voice of the turtle ...

"The developer who's renovating this high-rise was issued three stop-work orders last month by the Connecticut Department of Labor for the kind of alleged labor violations that take jobs away from ...

President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on Thursday. The move aims to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise and ...

For 2025, the state Insurance Department approved a 6.1% reduction ... during the nearly five-hour meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee.