President Donald Trump has named Richard Burkhauser as the final member of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), joining economists Kevin Hassett and Tomas Philipson.

The complaint against Google, filed on Thursday, includes three named plaintiffs who offer specific stories of the company “assigning and keeping female employees in lower compensation levels than male employees with similar skills, experience, and duties.”

The labor force participation rate for working-aged American men dropped by 3 percentage points between 1999 and 2014, and new research indicates that 20% of this decline can be attributed to the so-called “opioid crisis” in the US.

It seems that almost no job is safe from automation these days with a new robot programmed to perform Buddhist funeral rituals.

The number of work hours donated to social causes rose from just under 500,000 in 2013 to over one million in 2016, according to a survey of 270 companies by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP).

McDonald’s Japan is to target housewives, promising new hires both flexibility and good growth prospects.

Senior figures from a range of UK industries have condemned draft government proposals that would seek to drastically drive down the number of EU workers in the UK following Brexit, with some describing them as having potentially “catastrophic” consequences.