Total nonfarm payroll rose by 130,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — stark, unexpected improvements in the face of significant downward revisions for the whole of ...

Editor’s Note: ‘Happy Hour’ is an HR Dive column from Editor Ginger Christ. Follow along as she dives into some of the offbeat news in the HR space. Valentine’s Day can sometimes be a make-or-break holiday for couples, so much ...

Dive Brief: Three law students and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have agreed to end a lawsuit in which the students alleged the agency had been acting outside its authority in threatening to investigate the diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Target is eliminating about 100 roles at the store district level and 400 roles relating to supply chain as part of an effort to invest more into store payroll and improve the customer experience. The mass retailer is consolidating its ...

Dive Brief: Sixty-nine percent of U.S. employees say their skills aren’t being fully realized in their current positions — a problem Resume Now’s Untapped Talent Report says can lead to stalled career growth, disengagement and turnover.  Nearly three-quarters of those ...

Dive Brief: Workers rate stability over satisfaction, with 93% of U.S. workers saying they’ve stayed in a job they didn’t love because of the stability it provided, according to Glassdoor Community poll results, released Feb. 10. The report found that ...

When it first launched in 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Payroll Audit Independent Determination program, or PAID, allowed employers to self-report potential violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new iteration of the program, launched last year, has ...

Dive Brief: SHRM motioned for a new trial Friday in a case that last year resulted in a $11.5 million jury verdict against the HR organization, calling that decision “the result of passion, prejudice or bias” and “poisoned by the ...

Dive Brief: A former football staffer for The Ohio State University alleged in a Feb. 3 lawsuit that the school failed to properly investigate his harassment complaint because he is male (Lyberger v. The Ohio State University). Both the plaintiff ...

Dive Brief: Sixty-two percent of HR leaders said their industry was facing a self-inflicted talent crisis and attributed the problem to outdated hiring practices, according to the sixth annual HR trends report from human capital management tech company Isolved. In the ...