Dive Brief: A former Texas FedEx Office store employee failed to show that the company discriminated against her for reporting harassment six separate times by denying her a promotion, in part because the alleged conduct didn’t rise to the level ...
Whole Foods successfully defeated a former manager’s race discrimination, retaliation and Family and Medical Leave Act claims in part because the company showed evidence that the plaintiff misrepresented his hours worked, according to a federal judge’s decision Thursday. The plaintiff ...
Dive Brief: The outlook for women in the C-suite continues to be less than stellar, according to 50-50 Women on Board’s data analysis. A Q2 analysis shows that women hold 29.2% of Russell 3000 board seats, down from 30.1% a ...
A Texas-based logistics company will pay half a million dollars to resolve federal claims that it rejected female job applicants because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday. EEOC claimed that, since 2020, Birchstone Management declined ...
Most-clicked story of the week The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit at the end of last month claiming technology sector employment agency Sibitalent Corp. openly preferred to hire only H-1B visa holders. One California job seeker allegedly ...
Standard Chartered ran the numbers on its own hiring and found that reskilling and redeploying an existing employee saved roughly $49,000 compared with hiring someone new for the same skills. Between 2023 and mid-2025, the bank raised internal hiring from ...
If you could give your employees more peace of mind and improve their financial wellbeing — using a benefit you already offer — would you? HR leaders nationwide are looking for ways to support employees in a world of rising ...
Dive Brief: New York City-based Hungry Ghost Coffee will pay $22,500 to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that it violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refused to let ...
When the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s relatively quiet 2025 fiscal year wrapped a little over a year ago, watchers expected FY 2026 could bring an explosion of litigation. The agency seemed to tee up major activity, announcing priorities in ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Northern California filed a complaint Tuesday with the California Civil Rights Department, alleging Criteria Corp., a hiring and employment assessment firm, sells a product that may disproportionately screen out applicants with ...