Connecticut Labor Markets

For one reason or another, they were all failures: a recycling outfit in Killingworth; a Greenwich consulting firm; a personal information security company in Berlin; and a West Hartford restaurant. Their closings cost Connecticut at least 28 jobs. None...

It took entrepreneur Chris Farrell 10 years to go from a scribble on the back of a placemat to a product prototype with industry certification. And the Orange-based businessman's brainchild wouldn't have become a commercial reality without manufacturers...

YWCA New Britain will be hosting its 15th biennial Women in Leadership Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., on Wednesday, May 15 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville. The event will recognize women in central Connecticut who demonstrate extraordinary...

* U.S. home prices up 9.3 percent in February year-over-year * Price gains accelerate in February from January * Labor costs rise 0.3 percent in first quarter * Consumer confidence improves in April By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - U....

The Connecticut Department of Labor has issued stop work orders against eight companies building a Trinity College dormitory on Crescent Street after those companies could not provide records proving they were paying into the worker's compensation system....

Metro Hartford and Fairfield County's economies grew faster than 80 percent of cities around the country from 2010 to 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported Friday, but New Haven and New London's economies lagged. The Hartford economy, which...

Clothing maker The Warnaco Group, recently acquired by New York City-based PVH Corp., is closing its operations at 470 Wheeler's Farms Road in Milford in early June and is laying off 208 people in the process. The layoffs are part of 1,000 that PVH is...

From coast to coast, politicians and pundits quickly grasped the irony when the shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown landed Connecticut, the home and birthplace of the American firearms industry, at the center of a national...

The number of jobs in Connecticut fell by 5,700 in February, according to the monthly jobs report released Thursday, although the state's job level is still in positive territory for the year. The latest data from the state Department of Labor say...

The job picture may be brightening, particularly if you've only been out of work for a few months. Nationally, the share of the unemployed who have been out of work 15 weeks to six months is down to normal, pre-recession levels, and the proportion that...

Connecticut employers added 8,600 jobs in 2012, rather than losing 100 as originally reported in monthly tallies, the state Department of Labor said Friday. And the unemployment rate was 8.2 percent at the end of the year, not 8.6 percent. The fuller...

The U.S. labor markets turned in one of the best monthly performances of the past 12 months in February, adding 236,000 jobs and paring the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent in a report Friday that heightens concerns about the divide between a sluggish...