How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom

The reality of being a contractor includes inexperienced workers, sketchy business practices and low, low margins.

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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for “incidentals.”

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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

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How a Classic French Dish Is Squeezed by Lingering Inflation

Businesses across Europe, including restaurants in Paris that make the dish, are being squeezed by sticky inflation.

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What You Should Know About Your Spouse’s Money

Many couples are surprisingly unaware about key aspects of each other’s finances — and that can hurt them. Here’s how to get on the same page.

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Dockworkers Vote to Accept New Labor Contract

Workers at East and Gulf Coast ports who went on strike briefly in October ratified a deal that includes a 62 percent raise over six years.

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DoorDash to Pay $16.8 Million to Workers for Pocketing Their Tips

The payments, part of a settlement with the New York attorney general’s office over a practice that ended in 2019, will return as much as $14,000 to some workers.

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Starbucks to Lay Off 1,100 Corporate Workers

The jobs cuts, which will affect about 7 percent of the chain’s non-retail staff, are part of its new chief executive’s plan to win back customers.

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Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety

Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.

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How a Hong Kong Artist Got Fired From McDonald’s

Luke Ching has made a name for himself with creative campaigns to improve working conditions for menial laborers, even as the scope for political protests in the city has narrowed.

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