A court-appointed official has awarded drivers for FedEx Corp. in California about $14.4 million in a dispute over whether the delivery company illegally classified them as independent contractors instead of employees. Full story »

The global financial crisis will add at least 20 million people to the world's unemployed, bringing the total to 210 million by the end of next year, the United Nations labor agency said Monday. Full story »

More than once, Kenneth Osborne stepped outside the Tennessee Career Center in Collierville waiting room and lit a cigarette. Osborne, 45, used to manage a warehouse. Now, he draws a weekly unemployment check Full story »

Q: I'm in a sales organization and am concerned with the growing aggression I see in our staff. I know we have to be take-charge people, but the last two or three employees hired seem to have been chosen for their aggressive behavior, and the sales manager admires them. Do I have to adopt their behaviors to survive? -- Bryce F. Full story »

With unemployment at a five-year high, about 5,500 job hunters poured into The Commercial Appeal-Yahoo! Hotjobs fair Tuesday at Agricenter International. Full story »

It seems appropriate -- almost too appropriate -- that these displaced managers are having their support meeting at Our Lady of Perpetual Hope, a Catholic church in Germantown. Full story »

This is no time to be number two in the retail world. Full story »