Dive Brief: The Department of Labor’s employee benefits arm proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow insurers to share mandatory group health plan disclosures with their beneficiaries electronically. Many of the communications, like summary plan descriptions, claims denials or notices that ...

Dive Brief: After being laid off, 57% of U.S. workers said they’ve felt pressured to accept a lower salary to get back to work, according to Glassdoor poll results released Tuesday.  Women, the results show, feel greater pressure, with 63% ...

Dive Brief: The ability to direct advanced artificial intelligence systems is becoming increasingly important for early-career workers, according to a joint field study from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and accounting firm KPMG.  ...

Major restaurant CEOs make hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of times more than their hourly workers, many of whom are making close to poverty wages, public filings show.  Last year Restaurant Dive analyzed the Dodd-Frank disclosures of seven major QSRs to ...

Dive Brief: The federal government’s main HR office lost more than 1,000 workers, or 35% of its staff, in just over a year, according to a new analysis by the watchdog Government Accountability Office.   The reduction aligns with the end ...

Dive Brief: The widening of gender pay gaps may be in part due to the tendency of male employees to use external job opportunities to negotiate higher pay, a tactic in which comparatively fewer female employees engage, according to a ...

Dive Brief: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers say they’re staying in a job they dislike because they’re worried about losing their health insurance, according to a report published this week.  The number of workers reporting “job lock” is up ...

Dive Brief: Organizational design should take neurodiversity into consideration, real estate development and operational services firm JLL suggested in a July 10 report. Noting that workplaces traditionally focused on operating models that championed standardization, “common ways of working” and “predictability,” ...

Dive Brief: Less than one-quarter of artificial intelligence use by professionals is tied to business-related activities as a looming skills gap threatens adoption at scale, according to CompTIA data. The organization surveyed 1,000 business and technology pros for the Tuesday ...

Dive Brief: Employees continue to view their odds of having a comfortable retirement with uncertainty even as they trust the financial guidance they receive from employer-provided resources, according to a recent survey conducted by Aon-owned insurance broker NFP. NFP found ...