As the national economy goes, so go the regions in Virginia. Well, not always. The latest data for nonmetropolitan areas show that employment in Southwest Virginia grew 1.4 percent last year, compared with 0.9 percent in the state.

The Fair Trading Commission has ordered Yamada Denki, operator of the nation's largest consumer electronics retail chain, to stop the practice of forcing employees from its suppliers to work at its outlets without compensation. The Maebashi-based firm ha

It's no wonder that 85 percent of employers in a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management used outside agencies to do background checks on potential hires.

BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - New jobs could be on the way for dozens of people in the ArkLaTex. They definitely put in the time to make that happen by waiting in line Wednesday morning at the Bossier Civic Center. That was the site of the KSLA Joblink Employ

Some states are balking at a federal effort to require them to screen potential farm hands for immigration violations before referring them to jobs, another conflict in the long-running dispute over the states' role in immigration enforcement. Most re