Nothing eats into a quick-service restaurant’s profits faster than labor and food expenses, each accounting for up to 33 percent of a restaurant’s sales, according to the National Restaurant ...

The cost of doing business includes any expense related to running a company. One of the major expenses that companies have is labor, which some experts suggest can be as high as 70%. Labor costs ...

Second, the Fed is looking for signs of weakness in the labor market. Though the Fed doesn't want unemployment levels to dive ...

US labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures are gradually diminishing and no longer a key driver of inflation. The ...

What is a person’s labor worth? What about their skills developed ... In a world where a 2x4 costs what it costs (and price increases are readily accepted), shortchanging workers is too often ...