Wages & Hours

Many thousands of people in Pennsylvania work jobs where they are tipped regularly, including wait staff, bellhops, taxi drivers, hair stylists and bartenders, to name just a few. For some, it can be a quite lucrative profession that allows them to earn more than what their employer pays them. But …

A career in the home health care industry is both rewarding and stable. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment for home health aides and personal care aides is expected to grow 41 percent by 2026 — much faster than other occupations.

If you work in home health …

Many jobs earn not just a wage but also other forms of earnings. Some sales jobs and other types of employment, for example, can earn workers commissions, or an amount of money based on performance. A commission is usually a percentage amount of sales and is paid at regular intervals, …

Sifting through company rules on overtime compensation is a sticky situation in which many field service technicians find themselves stuck.

In an industry where hands-on, on-call services are the expectation — not the exception — it comes as little surprise these individuals rarely operate on a neat nine-to-five. What’s more, …

If you’ve just been offered a new job, you might be wondering how to start your new career with the best employment contract. Negotiation of your job contract not only sets the tone for your professional relationship with your employer, but it also determines your career trajectory.

• What is negotiable?