Labor Department

It’s time to rethink the relationship between employers and employees.

The federal agency asks the Second Circuit to crack down on for-profit employers that refuse to pay.

Temp workers are thrown into dangerous work with little training and suffer injuries far more often than permanent employees.

America is now dotted with “temp towns”—places where it’s difficult to find blue-collar work except through a temp agency and where workers often suffer lost wages, no benefits, and high injury rates.