Hiring

Today’s red-hot labor market has employers recruiting furiously for workers. There’s evidence that businesses across the country have opened up positions to people whose criminal pasts once might have shut them out of jobs.

Hiring and staff retention have been challenges for employers across the country, but nonprofits in the Pittsburgh area say limited funding makes them less competitive with for-profit businesses. They note that the threat of COVID-19 also makes workers reluctant to take jobs that involve direct contact with clients.

Federal data shows that layoffs of U.S. workers reached a record low in December, with Pennsylvania-based employees the least likely to lose their jobs. The trend reflects the difficulties businesses face with hiring and retaining workers amid an ongoing labor shortage.

Hiring remains an urgent challenge in manufacturing as plants face increased demand for goods amid the pandemic. Factories are competing harder for workers and raising prices for consumers.

Women account for 50.5 percent of the population of the United States, but across the country, that number is not reflected in boardrooms, which are only…

Minority groups saw a two percentage point increase in casino employment throughout the state, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s 8th…