Part-time work often gets a reputation for offering lower pay, but that’s not always true. In many industries, there are good ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

JCPenney is turning to a well-worn playbook to improve customer service during key shopping days, The Post has learned. The department store will convert full-time employees to part-time positions — ...

As it tends to do every few months or so, the right-wing commentariat erupted this week with reports that the Affordable Care Act is “forcing hundreds of thousands of people into part-time work.” I’ve ...

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 ...