During the Great Recession, involuntary part-time employment surged. So, now that the economy is recovering, shouldn't involuntary employment return to prerecession levels? Perhaps not, according ...

Part-time work has shifted from rigid shifts to on-demand income streams that can flex around school, caregiving, or a ...

The U.S. economy is recovering, but some glaring problems remain on the jobs front. One of those is all the people who have been forced into part-time employment when they would much rather be working ...

Full-time jobs are getting harder to find for many Americans and so they're taking part-time positions. The ranks of such ...

Let’s begin by understanding a couple of terms tossed around as of late: “pay parity” and “pay equity.” Quick now! Which do you want? If you said pay equity, please stay after class and clean the ...

Whether out of necessity or preference, you may be considering joining the 28 million Americans currently working part time. If so, experts say there are a number of concrete steps you can take to ...

When it comes to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “First Friday” unemployment numbers, March’s data are a good reminder of our monthly mantra: don’t read too much into any one set of numbers, based on ...

Will health care reform push more employers toward part-time workers? A recent Wall Street Journal story thinks so, citing several restaurants, hotels and retailers that have started to fill full-time ...

Part-time workers who have no benefits in the workplace could become more financially secure if their employers provided voluntary benefits, according to a new report. Part-time workers who have no ...

The increase in part-time work since the recent recession is not unusual, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. But what has changed dramatically is the age of ...

Target’s decision to move its part-time workers from its own insurance program to Obama­care likely marks the opening of the floodgates for other com­panies to do the same, potentially pushing tens of ...

The big noise on the health insurance front today was sounded by Target, which announced via a corporate blog that it’s ending health insurance for its part-time workers. Instead of signing up for a ...