Dive Brief: Bouchon Restaurant and the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group must pay $2 million to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to a July 8 consent decree (EEOC v. KVP, LP ...
Small businesses make important decisions every day. An entrepreneur chooses a new accountant. A growing company appoints a specialist supplier. A founder considers a partnership with another business after a promising introduction. These decisions may not always involve large corporate ...
Dive Brief: As employers grapple with worker demand for GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, 1 in 5 employers recommend employees use their FSA, HSA or integrated HRA to acquire them, according to new research from the International Foundation of Employee ...
For many modern professionals, a laptop is not simply a piece of office equipment. It is the place where business decisions are made, client work is completed and income is generated. A freelancer may use it to deliver a project, ...
Dive Brief: Hiring more people often leads to better revenue growth, with 40% of the U.S. companies that raised revenue by increasing their workforce performing better than the 23% of the companies that said they had increased revenue by reducing ...
As workers’ roles change faster than they can be trained, many are relying on artificial intelligence tools to cover their skills gaps, with potentially detrimental consequences, according to a July 15 report from employee training platform TalentLMS. “AI is blurring ...
Dive Brief: No reasonable jury could conclude that Brewster Ambulance Service discriminated against a deaf applicant when it determined that no reasonable accommodation existed which would have allowed the plaintiff to perform the essential functions of a driver position without ...
A scientist was chosen for a reduction in force while on pre-birth pregnancy leave. A manager was demoted following a medical leave, then selected to be laid off weeks into his second medical leave. An engineer’s rating was lowered because ...
Over the past six months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been closely aligned with President Donald Trump’s diversity, equity and inclusion outlook. EEOC set the tone for 2026 when its chair, Andrea Lucas, solicited bias claims from White ...
Dive Brief: When it comes to evaluating employee feedback, artificial intelligence models are better at working with easily categorized themes and less effective at handling nuance, according to a new study from PYX Labs, a research lab sponsored by Perceptyx. ...