The result is always the same – the head of Stats SA comes out all guns blazing to prove the statistical validity of his team ...

Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie may have overstated his case about SA’s unemployment rate, but he also illuminated a critical truth, writes Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth.

Clearly, the youth are increasingly falling out of the labour force as they are not finding work: they are becoming ‘discouraged workers’. Note: Author’s estimates in the text are from a forthcoming ...

Fast-food workers are facing an affordability crisis, needing to work longer hours to afford the meals they serve. Wage gaps highlight economic issues in the food industry.

South Africa's unemployment rate rose in the first quarter of this year, with statisticians fretting that increasing numbers of people appear to have given up looking for work.

The Organized Labour in Rivers State has described the 2025 Workers’ Day celebration as a moment for sober reflection on the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, which ...

In a statement marking Workers’ Day, ADPD chairperson Sandra Gauci said the government’s perception of workers as mere "economic cogs" is reflected in its policies, notably Malta's low minimum ...

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The broader measure of unemployment, often referred to as U-6, its technical title with the BLS, shows 14.3 percent of Arizona’s potential work force isn’t where they would like to be jobwise ...

It reflects job losses and a “discouraged worker” effect. Discouraged workers are those who have stopped seeking employment due to a perceived lack of opportunities.

Jobs of federal workers nationwide are in flux. Many are being encouraged to quit, and those who stay don't know if they'll have a job. One federal worker in central Utah has had enough.

In addition, economic historian Deirdre McCloskey suggests, the denigration of rich people “as clever thieves or obsessive misers or lucky inheritors” discouraged people from striving to join their ...