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Labor market turns upside down as the economy can shed jobs and still keep unemployment low amid immigration reversal

"Real-time data point to an important change in the U.S. labor market: The benchmark for evaluating payroll growth has moved significantly."

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement Under Trump

In order to produce substantial mobility-enhancing effects, immigration reductions have to be long-lasting enough to change the behaviors of employers and employees alike.

AI throwing wrench into arbitrage machine for forwarding labor

Forwarding costs are being upended by AI-enabled automation, forcing companies to decide what coordination and administrative work needs to be done at origin versus destination.

Jobs and Workers Are In Balance. Nobody Is Happy About It.

Lower immigration has brought labor supply in line with shaky demand, but economists worry that such a slow-moving job market is at risk of toppling over.

A tech worker in China is laid off and replaced by AI. Is it legal?

A tech worker in eastern China's Hangzhou city was dismissed after his job was replaced by AI. An appeals court in the city has ruled the dismissal unlawful.

Short-Time Work in Times of Geopolitical Crisis

Short-time work is a proven policy instrument for dealing with times of crisis, but not every economic uncertainty justifies short-time work....By: Ius Laboris

How the H-1B visa replaces American workers

Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employ...

Training Your Replacement, One Keystroke at a Time

AI and the hidden wage theft of automation training Reuters recently reported that Meta plans to install tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movem...

Embattled L.A. homeless services agency to lay off 284 workers

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said it would lay off 284 workers, primarily because the county of Los Angeles is pulling funding and setting up its own homeless depart...

One American loses their job for every 6 immigrants removed from the workforce as researchers see ‘no evidence’ that ICE...

“If anything, job opportunities for U.S.-born workers are going down as a result,” the University of Colorado Boulder’s Chloe East said.

Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs

The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major layoff...

Stores turn to migrants as labor shortage worsens

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Tổ chức Lao động quốc tế (ILO) cho biết thêm các khu vực dễ bị ảnh hưởng nhất do sự suy giảm thu nhập thực tế từ lao động là Trung Đôn...

California Legislature Proposes 90-Day Layoff Notice Requirement Due to Employer’s AI Use

The California Legislature recently introduced a bill (Senate Bill (SB) 951) that would establish the California Worker Technological Displacement Act—a first-of-its-kind law that...

AI has companies cutting jobs — but not replacing workers

The conventional story about AI and jobs goes like this: A machine learns to do what a human used to do, and the human is let go. That narrative treats displacement as a task-level...

What H-1B Holders Need to Know About AI Layoffs and Immigration Status

Tech companies are cutting headcount at an accelerating pace, and a significant share of those cuts are tied not to performance, but to AI-driven workflow consolidation. For H-1B v...

Texas State University dining shakeup leaves hundreds of workers in limbo

Texas State dining switch leaves 183 workers facing uncertain job future.

Manufacturing penalises experienced workers

With wage progression favouring younger workers, the sector will struggle to retain skilled, middle-level workers

Forced Labor: A Human Rights Travesty that Suppresses Wages Everywhere

AAM offers comments on USTR's Section 301 investigation into weak international prohibitions against goods made by forced labor.

Hsinchu County Government receives mass layoff plan from Shiseido

Stuck in limbo: millions of professionals risk losing legal status under Trump pause

Their experiences — of sudden financial insecurity, months of unemployment, and crippling anxiety — come as the administration seeks to restrict legal migration and boost mass depo...

Track statewide layoffs across Wisconsin

How Layoffs Hurt All of Us—and What Companies Can Do Instead

You may have seen the headlines.  According to TrueUp, tech companies laid off 674 people a day in 2025—a total of 245,953. So far this year, these companies have laid off an addit...

This talent CEO says laid-off tech workers are ignoring a $300K ‘white-collar trade job’ with 81K openings a year

As AI layoffs threaten the white-collar workforce, the $700 billion data center buildout is minting six-figure technician roles, and employers can't fill them fast enough.