A federal judge denied on Thursday SHRM’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Virginia Human Rights Act (Torres v. SHRM). U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said there is ...

Dive Brief: Management and technology consulting firm Accenture will pay $25 million to settle U.S. Department of Justice allegations it has discriminated in its hiring and promotional practices based on race and sex in violation of the False Claims Act ...

Dive Brief: A San Francisco transit operator’s grant of religious accommodation from a COVID-19 vaccination mandate might have increased safety risk, but this alone is not a sufficient basis on which to find that a proposed accommodation poses undue hardship, ...

Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence hasn’t consistently improved the speed of hiring despite its increased use across every aspect of recruitment, according to the latest employment outlook report from staffing company ManpowerGroup released Sept. 8. The research found that only a ...

Employers are scrambling to teach workers how to use artificial intelligence tools in line with business priorities — but in turn, AI tools may be actively degrading employees’ current skill sets, various stories have shown. Beyond the threat of workslop ...

Dive Brief: Amazon is investing more than $230 million to provide Whole Foods Market team members with higher pay, expanded benefits and new programs supporting their health and families, the company announced Thursday.  Beginning Sept. 28, hourly workers will get ...

Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence engineers are cognizant of the ethical risks that the systems they build pose, but they lack the authority, incentives and support needed to adequately address those ethical risks, University of Manchester research says. Many AI professionals ...

The chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took to social media Monday to solicit charges alleging anti-American workplace discrimination, a move in keeping with the Trump administration’s stated priorities. “Have you ever felt that you were treated differently ...

Dive Brief: SHRM HR-X Live! will replace SHRM’s annual conference next year, according to an announcement from the association.  The “credentialing academy” will sort attendees into four “dimensions” that SHRM said most contribute to stronger business growth: talent optimization, organizational ...

A Middle Eastern former mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service failed to show that his removal by police and placement on emergency leave following a workplace dispute constituted race- and national origin-based discrimination, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of ...