Economy

At least eight Worcester elected officials have shown support for undergraduate workers' efforts to have the university sign a neutrality card check agreement giving the workers the ability to form a union.

Deborah Packard, the long-time leader of Preservation Worcester, will retire from her role as executive director this summer.

Business groups are ramping up the pressure on Beacon Hill to use state dollars, not employer taxes, to repay the federal government for an unemployment insurance error committed by the Baker administration.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is implementing immediate and upcoming cuts to hiring, spending, and employment.

January’s report consolidated labor markets while omitting others, accounting for the decrease in regions analyzed from the usual 24 to 12.

The massive wave of federal layoffs is starting to have a modest but noticeable impact on Massachusetts residents, the Healey administration indicated after launching a website Friday to connect fired workers with other public and private job opportunities in the commonwealth.

The Channel Co. has named former Gizmodo Australia Managing Editor Athina Mallis as CRN Australia’s editor.

A downtown Natick firm, which uses technology to help firms improve their employee benefits and HR compliance, has purchased the site of its headquarters for $5.3 million.

After 34 years as the CFO of Sullivan Insurance Group in Worcester, Gary Leger is calling it a career.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts inched upward in January, remaining a shade higher than the rate for the country as a whole, officials announced Friday.