The report will include the October payrolls data that was delayed due to the government shutdown, but no data on the October unemployment rate, the BLS said.

What educators think of shifting CTE to another federal agency could preview how they'll view a bigger shuffle.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer greeted returning employees via email but didn’t welcome staff in person or through a virtual meeting, as previous DOL leaders have done following government shutdowns, the worker said. In her email to DOL staff Thursday morning, the secretary said she was “eager” for them to get back to work.

The U.S. Labor Department is accused of using AI-generated images to portray an "unrealistic" depiction of the current workforce.

The Fed faces a data gap as the BLS cancels the October CPI and delays November’s report, leaving policymakers without key inflation readings.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits stood at a two-month high in mid-October at the time when the Labor Department would have been conducting its survey of U.S. households.

As the federal statistics system lurches back to life after the government shutdown, a one-off data point popped into view on the Labor Department's website: a figure showing that 232,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims in the week through Oct. 18.

The Department of Education announced on Nov. 18 that it is handing over some of its biggest grant programs to the Department of Labor and other federal agencies.