Jobs and employment news API

What this covers

Workforce changes, industrial relations, wage settlements and employment policy. Announcement-driven — coverage clusters around company statements and official statistics releases rather than being continuous.

Querying it

Semantic mode is important here because the vocabulary varies enormously by source: the same event is a layoff, a restructuring, a headcount reduction or an efficiency programme depending on who is describing it.

GET /stories?topic=WB_2670_JOBS&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out

Coverage skews heavily toward large employers and dramatic numbers. Most workforce reduction happens through attrition and small rolling cuts that no publication covers, so a news-derived measure is a lower bound on activity rather than a measure of it.

Who publishes on it

Company announcements picked up by business press, union and labour-focused outlets, and statistical releases covered by national papers. Trade titles for a given sector report workforce changes well before general business coverage.

What it is best for

Best for detecting announced workforce changes at larger employers, and for tracking industrial relations where union outlets report early. Weakest as a labour market measure, since most employment change is invisible to news and skewed heavily toward large and dramatic cases.

Monitoring it over time

The announcement pattern means coverage arrives in discrete lumps rather than continuously, so short windows return either an event or nothing. Widen the window and expect the distribution to be dominated by a handful of large employers; smaller cuts and gradual attrition are absent from the record entirely rather than merely under-reported.

Signals that pair with it

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

• signal_labor
• signal_economy
• signal_financial_negative

GET /search?topic=WB_2670_JOBS&signal=signal_labor&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

index.hr · dailypolitical.com · themarketsdaily.com · tribunnews.com · tickerreport.com · zazoom.it · euronews.com · naslovi.net · china.com · haberler.com · welt.de · indiatimes.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.