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Acosta’s deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will become acting DOL secretary and is regarded as being more aggressively pro-business than Acosta.

In the absence of federal standards, some employers have been implementing changes on their own with dramatic results.

The outgoing secretary’s deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will be named acting secretary of the department.

The financial group also says employee savings rates are on the rise.

Employers are finding that workers like the predictability of a traditional healthcare plan and that providing more generous plans can help with recruiting in a tight labor market.

Figuring out ways to keep older workers engaged and help them overcome the prejudices that prevent them from getting hired is a task often neglected by policymakers

Careers with a high number of men, like finance and technology, are much more likely to get paid time off to care for newborns than those in other female-populated industries, like healthcare and retail.

The number of uninsured declined to 28.3 million in the first quarter, down from 29.3 million last year.

Same-sex female couples are two to three times more likely to reach 100 than one or both members of a 45-year-old same-sex male couple.

Patients far from major cities may be left with fewer hospital choices as insurers push them toward online providers like Teladoc and clinics such as CVS Health's MinuteClinic.