Department of Labor

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said during a White House press briefing that employers added more than 900,000 jobs in March and spoke in favor of raising the federal minimum wage.

We’ve taken NBC10 Boston viewers’ complaints to the top: Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Rosalin Acosta. Watch her extended remarks from our interview below. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, we have heard from dozens of viewers who asked for our help getting their unemployment benefits. They have described payment delays, problems with the state call center and frustrations...

Since the pandemic began, we’ve heard from dozens of viewers asking for help getting their unemployment benefits.

President-elect Joe Biden introduced the mayor of Boston and the governor of Rhode Island as members of his economic and jobs team on Friday, the final Biden-Harris Cabinet nominations to be announced. Biden had on Thursday revealed Mayor Marty Walsh as his candidate for labor secretary and Gov. Gina Raimondo as his choice to become commerce secretary. The scale of…

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he is getting ready to work for the American people as President-elect Joe Biden announced him as his choice for labor secretary.

Boston City Council President Kim Janey could soon have a new title — mayor.

Boston City Council President Kim Janey could soon become the next mayor of the city.

Sen. Bernie Sanders may have lost the race to be the Democratic nominee for president, but the independent from Vermont was still interested in joining President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet in a role he feels passionate about. Rumors swirled for months that Sanders, who has long advocated for the working class, was jockeying to be secretary of labor, and Biden...

President-elect Joe Biden announced his nominations for key economic seats on his cabinet on Friday, including nominations for Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary, Don Graves for deputy commerce secretary, and Isabel Guzman as head of the Small Business Administration.

NBC10 Boston cameras captured Mayor Marty Walsh leaving his home Friday morning. He’s expected to appear at an afternoon event in Delaware later in the day where President-elect Joe Biden will introduce him as a Cabinet nominee.

Two New England politicians have been chosen to join the Biden administration: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary.

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to serve in his cabinet as labor secretary.

President-elect Joe Biden has picked Boston Mayor to be head of the Labor Department, sources tell NBC News.

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be secretary of labor, sources told NBC News.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March but a figure that remains historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is still forcing many employers to cut jobs

With coronavirus cases on the rise in Massachusetts, food manufacturers and distributors appear to have suffered a higher number of COVID-19 outbreaks in recent weeks than other types of businesses, according to state records obtained by the Business Journal through a public records request. For some of the largest COVID-19 workplace clusters, the outbreak does not seem to have been…

New unemployment benefit claims are rising to levels unseen in recent U.S. history as a result of coronavirus concerns

The U.S. Department of Labor says jobless claims spiked to 281,000 last week after companies began layoffs to deal with issues stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump rattled off several false claims in his Nov. 12 speech to the Economic Club of New York, in which he contrasted the supposedly “bleak” outlook at the end of his predecessor’s term with an exaggerated portrayal of the economy’s strong performance during his own tenure.