Workforce
Alberta Rewrote Its Overtime Rules and Barely Anyone Noticed. Workers Will.
Changes to important policies usually don't happen with a press conference or a public outcry. Instead, they happen quietly, tucked away in a law with a name that…
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Alexandra Combs
Alexandra Combs is an Editor at Workforce Info Council, where she covers labor trends, employment data, and the numbers shaping the modern workforce. A mathematics major at the University of Texas, Alexandra brings a data-driven lens to every story she writes, turning dense statistics into narratives readers can actually understand. She currently works part-time at the Department of Labor, an experience that keeps her closely connected to the real-world data behind the headlines and gives her reporting a grounded, inside perspective on how labor numbers are gathered and what they really mean.
Articles by Alexandra Combs
Workforce
The White-Collar Glut: Too Many Graduates, Too Few Desks, and No Plan
It's likely that the person giving you a room key or scanning your groceries has a four-year college degree if you go into almost any hotel lobby, chain…
Workforce
Half Pay, Full Degree: Singapore’s Graduate Humiliation Is Coming for Western Job Markets
One feels a certain level of shame when they go to school for four years, sit through lectures, work late, and do a lot of internships, only to…
Workforce
Australia’s Skills Shortage Might Be a Statistical Illusion. Here’s the Evidence.
In Australian policy circles, there's a phrase that is used so often that it sounds like the weather: you just deal with it. We need more people with…
Workforce
Oracle Shed 21,000 Workers and Called It Progress. Its Former Employees Call It Something Else.
There is a certain kind of corporate honesty that makes people feel worse than silence. Oracle responded in June with its annual 10-K filing, which showed that the…
Finance
London’s Finance Hiring Freeze Is Thawing — in Dubai
The financial world didn't freak out when the conflict in the Middle East got much worse earlier this year. It told us more when it stopped talking. Permissions…
Employment law and rights
Marshall Athletes NCAA Lawsuit: 12 Student-Athletes Take on the NCAA Over Eligibility Rule That Left Them Out
Dozens of Marshall University athletes from different sports went to Cabell County Circuit Court on Monday not only to fight for a season, but also to fight the…
Employment law and rights
Michael Flynn Retirement Funds Settlement: The Army Withheld $38,000 — Then the Government Wrote a Check
The most recent event involves a small amount compared to what happens in Washington: the retired lieutenant general had been waiting since 2022 to get about $38,000 in…
Employment law and rights
Costa Concordia Lawsuit Settlement: Court Orders $105,000 Payout — But Is It Enough?
There is something quietly important about a court decision that comes more than ten years after the disaster it's about. A court in Genoa, Italy, recently told Costa…
Employment law and rights
John Brennan Lawsuit Puts the Trump Administration on Notice Before Any Charges Are Filed
The former director of the CIA sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to tell the government to keep records related to…
