Nonfarm U.S. payroll employment increased by 165,000 in October, blowing past economist expectations after months of tepid growth and downward revisions, per data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate also fell slightly to 4.1%. Numbers for ...
WASHINGTON — Democrats should use their impending majorities in both congressional chambers to seek broad federal labor law reform beyond what past efforts sought to address, former National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Thursday. Speaking at the ...
Dive Brief: Today’s low-hire market means many employed workers feel trapped in their current roles while unemployed people struggle to find work, all of which is contributing to a “crisis of disengagement,” according to recent research published by Glassdoor Chief ...
Dive Brief: HR leaders in the U.S. say layoffs are coming, with 66% saying they expect reductions over the next 12 months, according to LHH’s latest U.S. Severance and Separation Benefits Benchmark Study. That percentage has nearly doubled since LHH’s ...
Dive Brief: U.S. employers expect employees to shoulder more of their healthcare costs over the next two years to offset steep projected increases, according to WTW’s 2026 Best Practices in Healthcare Survey, released Oct. 28. Employers anticipate costs to rise ...
Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor is issuing a final rule to change what it calls “onerous and legally questionable affirmative action requirements” related to Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, according to documents filed in the Federal Register on Thursday. ...
Dive Brief: Employers that make potentially misguided workforce decisions and replace workers with artificial intelligence only to later try to rehire them could have to pay up, a report released Oct. 29 by talent insights company SHL found. Workers said ...
Americans took to the polls in Tuesday’s midterm elections to decide several high-stakes federal, state and local races. But workplace issues also figured into state ballot initiatives, and the success of some measures translates to an even more complicated legal ...
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: The settlement awarded $22 million to the U.S. for alleged violations of the False Claims Act and about $7.5 million to more than 1,000 affected Lockheed employees for alleged race discrimination against White employees in violation ...
Dive Brief: An accumulation of workplace changes that got pushed through without being explained or finished has created “change debt” and has been driving change fatigue, according to new research from Wiley Workplace Intelligence. Wiley found that although many companies ...