Dive Brief: The average cost of employer-sponsored health insurance climbed to $16,501 per employee in 2024, up 5% from the previous year, according to results from Mercer’s 2024 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans released Wednesday. Employers expect it to ...

Judges for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether two Texas district courts effectively denied Amazon and SpaceX their requests for preliminary injunctions in a pair of ongoing labor disputes with the National Labor Relations Board. During oral ...

When hurricanes bear down on the U.S., the team at Limbach, a mission-critical building systems solutions firm, is all hands on deck.  The firm provides mechanical, electrical and plumbing support to customers whose business does not stop in times of ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Defense will have to face a lawsuit alleging that a supervisor forced a school psychologist at a military base in Okinawa, Japan, to take a breathalyzer test before returning to work because the worker ...

Editor’s note: Our Talent Textbook column explores the fundamentals of talent management and acquisition. Contact the team at [email protected]. There isn’t just one way to keep track of how efficiently your company is at identifying, interviewing and hiring new employees. ...

Dive Brief: Leaders lack communication skills — the skills considered among the most critical to their success by talent development professionals, according to research by the Association for Talent Development published Nov. 12. However, it costs more to train leaders ...

Checkr, a background check company, is launching an apprenticeship program called Catalyst to support hiring and training for workers with a criminal record, according to a Nov. 12 announcement. Employers can participate in a 2025 cohort, which will offer on-the-job ...

Trader Joe’s unlawfully prohibited workers at one of its stores from wearing union insignia on their uniforms ahead of a 2022 vote by employees over whether to formally organize as members of Trader Joe’s United, a National Labor Relations Board ...

Dive Brief: A Cincinnati-based logistics operator paid more than $56,000 in back wages and liquidated damages after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that the company miscalculated workers’ overtime pay, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division announced Nov. 15. The ...

Dive Brief: A federal jury awarded $12.69 million on Nov. 8 to a former IT employee for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after finding that it refused her religious accommodation request to be exempted from a 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate ...