/tags/employment Employment en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:55:57 GMT /austin/2024-06-12/ut-austin-jobs-remote-work-hybrid-return-to-office-university-of-texas The university will fully implement the policy by Aug. 19 � the week before fall classes start. Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:55:57 GMT /austin/2024-06-12/ut-austin-jobs-remote-work-hybrid-return-to-office-university-of-texas Chelsey Zhu, Jerry Quijano /austin/2022-06-29/austin-struggled-to-hire-summer-employees-then-it-failed-to-pay-some-on-time According to emails obtained by KUT, nearly three dozen people hired for summer work by the city went weeks without pay because of a clerical error. Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:20:39 GMT /austin/2022-06-29/austin-struggled-to-hire-summer-employees-then-it-failed-to-pay-some-on-time Audrey McGlinchy /business/2021-12-17/texas-employment-surpassed-pre-pandemic-record-in-november The Texas Workforce Commission reports statewide employment reached a new high in November, while the unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 5.2%. Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:52:44 GMT /business/2021-12-17/texas-employment-surpassed-pre-pandemic-record-in-november Joseph Leahy | The Texas Newsroom /business/2021-07-20/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate Average wages for nonmanagers at restaurants and bars hit $15 an hour in May, but many say no amount of pay would get them to return. They are leaving at the highest rate in decades. Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:03:44 GMT /business/2021-07-20/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate Alina Selyukh /business/2021-07-02/business-should-be-booming-if-only-there-were-enough-workers-for-the-job Small businesses are struggling to find enough workers to keep pace with booming demand even as data showed 850,000 jobs created in June. Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:50:49 GMT /business/2021-07-02/business-should-be-booming-if-only-there-were-enough-workers-for-the-job Scott Horsley /covid-19/2021-06-24/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit People are leaving their jobs in search of more money, more flexibility and more happiness. A record 4 million workers quit just in April. Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:24:04 GMT /covid-19/2021-06-24/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit Andrea Hsu /politics/2021-06-07/a-lifeline-for-the-unemployed-is-about-to-end-in-half-of-u-s-heres-whats-at-stake Mississippi, Missouri, Alaska and Iowa are ending the extra $300-a-week unemployment benefit provided as part of COVID-19 relief in a controversial bid to get people back to work. Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:12:20 GMT /politics/2021-06-07/a-lifeline-for-the-unemployed-is-about-to-end-in-half-of-u-s-heres-whats-at-stake Scott Horsley /texas/2020-02-11/how-ai-technology-discriminates-against-job-candidates-with-disabilities From Texas Standard:Impressing a potential employer is becoming harder than usual thanks to software that evaluates candidates' facial expression, tone of� Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:56:55 GMT /texas/2020-02-11/how-ai-technology-discriminates-against-job-candidates-with-disabilities Shelly Brisbin /texas/2020-01-24/texas-instruments-will-close-two-north-texas-computer-chip-factories From Texas Standard:Texas Instruments, or TI, says it will close two facilities in the Dallas area.Most people know Texas Instruments for its calculators.� Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:49:38 GMT /texas/2020-01-24/texas-instruments-will-close-two-north-texas-computer-chip-factories Kristen Cabrera /texas/2017-07-06/retail-workers-can-expect-major-job-losses From Texas Standard:The 2016 election campaign featured much concern for the fate of coal miners and auto workers, whose jobs have been swept away by� Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:33:39 GMT /texas/2017-07-06/retail-workers-can-expect-major-job-losses Alexandra Hart