During the Great Depression, the Senate passed — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported — a bill to establish a standard 30-hour workweek. Then it got derailed.

Experts share how sitting for eight hours a day impacts your health and wellness and what you can do to reverse the effects.

US work culture revolves around employees putting in eight hours a day, five days a week — a schedule immortalized by Dolly Parton in her 1980 song “9 to 5.” ...

May Day commemorates the day the American labor movement was dealt a severe setback when the 1886 eight-hour day movement fell apart due to violence in a series of events known as the Haymarket ...

In the 1880s, labor leaders believed that the eight-hour day was one of the only demands that could unite all working people. Today, the four-day week could do the same.

The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days is that a man with an eight-hour day can make extra money working extra hours, but a woman in an eight-hour-day-for-women state is ...

The answer lies in May Day. After the Haymarket affair of 1886, trade unionists saw that winning the right to an eight-hour day was going to take a massive push from workers everywhere.

May Day — or International Workers' Day — started in America. Here's the full history The holiday commemorates labor activists' decades-long struggle to establishing the eight-hour workday.

Vikrant Massey on Deepika Padukone, “I want to do eight-hours shift one day and I hope to achieve that. Maybe in a couple of ...

Writer-director Nora Fiffer was determined to make the set of her debut feature film, "Another Happy Day," as family-friendly as possible.

May Day, or Beltane; International Workers Day and Lei Day are all celebrated on May 1. Here's what to know about each holiday.