Last Friday, United States Labor Secretary Tom Perez visited Gawker Media’s headquarters to talk about jobs, inequality, unions, politics, the TPP, and much more. Watch him answer our questions, below.

There is a growing movement to put an end to “on-call” scheduling practices and give workers more regular, predictable hours. On the other hand, there’s what Amazon is doing.

Yesterday, food theme park Whole Foods announced it is laying off 1,500 employees as part of an effort to lower prices. Here is what those laid-off employees are offered on the way out the door.

You may love your job. You may love your boss. But if your boss has a problem with you getting the money you deserve, then the friendly boss is not your friend.

A pair of 85 year-old twins in New York City are seeking a crew of “12 to 16 hearty souls” to help them sail a boat around the world until they die, then throw their bodies overboard. Why not?

If you take a job, and perform poorly, and are fired, chances are that you walk away with a “goodbye,” and that’s all. Unless you are a corporate CEO. In that case, being fired is a richly deserved bonanza.

There are many media organizations that espouse progressive values—in their editorial product, and in their stated corporate beliefs. Now, employees are asking for unions. How progressive are these good liberal businesses, really?

Last night, Barack Obama announced a big increase in the overtime threshold. For millions of Americans, this could mean a significant earnings increase, and/ or better working conditions. A rare sign of progress in the class war.

Earlier this week, we brought you (more) stories of just how disliked the iconic guitar company Gibson is by employees and customers alike. If you work at Guitar Center, do not share this story! Or else!

Sensing the way the political winds are blowing, unassembled furniture warehouse Ikea is following the lead of retailers like Walmart and raising the wages of its employees. Will that be enough?

Alejandro Rhett is out as vice president of men’s merchandising at J. Crew, Fashion Week Daily reports. Last week, it emerged that Rhett had gloated on Instagram about surviving an earlier round of firings (in which he participated!).

Popularly “elected” U.S. “president” Baracs Obama has been living on the taxpayer dime for seven long years now—nice work, if you’re shameless enough to get it (by hook or by crook). Today: evidence that even the “Commander in Thief” is a delusional old fool.

Newly declassified documents from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad retirement compound show that al Qaeda’s rigorous HR department wasn’t just trolling LinkedIn for resumes—the terror organization had a formal application process. “Who should we contact in case you became a martyr?”

“It’s one thing to say, ‘Get off my property or else,’ but once people start issuing highly specific threats like, ‘I will kill you in this or that way,’ you know it’s going to be a long day.” A day in the life of a social worker for the mentally ill.

Some of us on the Gawker Media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. Here's a brief explanation.

Just last year, Ben Bernanke was still serving as the head of the Federal Reserve—the most powerful central banking position in the world. Now, he's going to work for a hedge fund. Is it possible—just possible—that we have a systemic problem?

This Wednesday will bring a nationwide wave of strikes and protests by low-wage workers and their supporters, calling for higher pay. For some context on why, consider this: you, the taxpayer, are already subsidizing these workers to the tune of billions of dollars.

New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman is investigating more than a dozen major retailers, including Target, Gap, and Sears, for their use of "on call" scheduling, which can essentially hold employees hostage to the employer's scheduling whims.

Are you a parent? Have you hired a nanny? Have you given that nanny a written "job description?" Is it 22 pages long? You monster.

After years of protests by its low-paid employees, McDonald's said today it "will pay at least $1 per hour more than the local legal minimum wage for employees at the roughly 1,500 restaurants it owns"—which does not include the 90% of McD's that are franchisee-owned. Still, it's something.