The U.S. Department of Labor detailed a “recurring pattern” of workplace misconduct under former Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a Sept. 3 report. The investigation was launched in early January in response to an anonymous complaint that alleged Chavez-DeRemer ...

Tracey Diamond, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke, specializes in employment law. Picture this: An employee comes to your office with digital evidence of harassment: a voicemail from a co-worker making sexual comments and a text that includes a nude ...

Dive Brief: When employees mention artificial intelligence in their company reviews, they’re more likely to rate their workplaces lower than colleagues who work at the same company but don’t mention AI, according to research from the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute, a ...

Onboarding may be commonly associated with piles of paperwork and long orientation days, but successful programs need to be more substantial, various studies and experts have said. For starters, workers report receiving an overabundance of documents in their first days ...

Dive Brief: Business leaders underestimate how disruptive change can be, according to findings from learning and development company Insights. Before their most recent change program, 39% of survey respondents said they expected moderate or major disruption, but 51% said they ...

Dive Brief: Coal Bed Services and its parent company, Pate Holdings, should face trial over two Black laborers’ discrimination claims, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Sept. 1. The evidence raised jury questions over whether the Alabama companies subjected ...

A former Amtrak employee failed to show that the rail operator fired him because he took intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act and because of his age and disability, rather than his failure to follow Amtrak’s attendance ...

Dive Brief: The Lowe’s Foundation announced Sept. 1 it would launch a U.S. cross-sector skilled trades coalition called the Building Futures Skilled Trades Coalition. The initiative is designed to train and develop 1 million skilled tradespeople by 2035, and it’s ...

Total nonfarm payroll rose by 162,000 in August, largely driven by stronger-than-expected gains in the “food services and drinking places” category. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised job numbers for June and ...

With employer costs for workers’ healthcare benefits expected to rise 11.1% in 2027, CFOs are taking notice, according to WTW’s Tim Stawicki. “Finance is leaning in more and helping to manage healthcare costs,” Stawicki, senior managing director of health and benefits ...