Layoff and hiring rates have been low for months. That may be starting to change, and not in a good way. Job cuts announced last month hit their highest January total since 2009, according to a report ...

Initial applications for unemployment benefits in the week through Saturday plunged from already low levels, in an outlier move, by 27,000 from the prior week to 191,000, seasonally adjusted, the ...

The “low-hire, low-fire” US labor market is leaving millions on the outside looking in. It’s not just recent college graduates who are struggling to find entry-level positions. Out-of-work mid-career ...

The August Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey affirmed a "low-gear" job market, Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank, said in a Tuesday note. "The big picture is that America still has a ...

But layoffs are also low, meaning that unemployment overall is still low by historical standards. “It feels like companies are just — they’ve kind of stopped hiring or slowed down their hiring, ...

The latest U.S. employment report was released last week, and the results were a mixed bag. Just 50,000 jobs were created in December, rounding 2025 with 584,000 new jobs for the year or 49,000 per ...

Canada’s labour market is changing, but it may take a while for the central bank to identify whether the changes are ...