A new report from Cornell University’s ILR Buffalo CoLab examines the workplace barriers facing Black women in Erie County, including wage disparities, discrimination, and the pressure to code-switch....

The Buffalo Co-Lab has received a donation from James “Jim” E. Miller to fund its High Road Buffalo Fellowship program for the next five years.

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A new research team plans to explore AI’s impact on professional work through a new two-year pilot initiative housed at the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Yang-Tan WorkABILITY Incubator.

The ILR School is proud to launch “The Robert and Nancy McKersie Labor Day Lecture,” a new annual event honoring the legacy of Robert B. McKersie, former dean of the ILR School, made possible through ...

Private equity firms and the companies they own employ over 13 million, from startups to rural hospitals and large retailers, but experts’ concerns of collapse are growing

Economists say job creation in only the tens of thousands per month is enough to maintain stable, low unemployment. But there are other consequences.

Join us for the Annual Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lecture, featuring Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and Unit Head of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business Schoo...

With this breezy and smart pop science treatise, Cornell social psychologist Bohns (You Have More Influence Than You Think) aims...

Inquiries come after conservative thinktanks claim unions are using member dues to support Democratic causes

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is backing legislation that would expand access to paid family and medical leave and create an interstate working group to “harmonize paid leave benefits”

Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her fin...

A federal investigation and conflict over Israel are preoccupying the United Auto Workers president ahead of a vote that would give him a second term.

A lawsuit filed by the Mamdani administration to block $10,000 bonuses for teachers’ aides has put the mayor at odds with their union.

In the right circumstances, job hopping can actually be beneficial for your career and bank account. Jill Schlesinger explains why.

Old-school equipment makers have been swept up in a sales-and-stock boom tied to AI.

Central Americans with the status make signification contributions to New York’s economy and civic and political organizations, an ILR School report says.

Duanyi Yang and Brittany Bond have been awarded a seed grant from ILR’s Center for Applied Research on Work to examine how private equity leveraged buyouts are associated with changes in workers’ ment...

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The U.S. Senate on Friday approved career economist Brett Matsumoto as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, potentially easing trust concerns after President Donald Trump fired the previous...

Human resources professionals are usually the ones handing out pink slips. Now they could be out of work themselves if they don’t rethink their roles.

To reduce the challenges of job searching, autistic applicants should rehearse socially appropriate responses and practice answering interview questions about teamwork with examples from previous expe...

Researchers studying ribosomes, AI and quantum computing are among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awa...

Health insurance costs for employers have been growing at a high rate. To cope, experts said employers could raise costs, hold off hiring, or cut into employee raises.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis makes adjustments to inflation estimates regularly, but it comes at a time when the BEA is under budgetary stress.

John Abowd, professor emeritus of economics, statistics, and data science at Cornell and Lars Vilhuber, research professor and executive director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, have received the 2...

A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.

Bob McKersie, distinguished scholar, educator, author, mentor and one of the most influential voices in industrial and labor relations, died July 11 at his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.