Dive Brief: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a joint resolution agreement along with the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, dropping agency efforts to enforce a subpoena seeking identification and personal contact information of Penn’s employee population, per a ...

Dive Brief: A former HR manager for Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry may proceed with her sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit alleging that she was fired for surfacing employees’ harassment and bias complaints in addition to her own related experiences, the 7th ...

Dive Brief: Despite economic anxieties, 55% of U.S. employees reported having a sense of positive financial well-being in Bank of America’s 2026 Workplace Benefits Report, representing an 11-point increase from 2023. However, 71% of employers said they believed their workers’ ...

Confidence in the HR function could crumble if HR leaders cannot move beyond task-level AI implementation, according to July 22 survey results. HR professionals said they’re using AI for content creation (86%) brainstorming (83%) and information synthesis (81%). But they need ...

Dive Brief: Average salary budgets for U.S. companies will likely remain stable in 2027, increasing by 3.4% — slightly lower than the actual 3.5% increase in 2026, according to a new report from London-based advisory and broking firm WTW. Companies ...

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions and references to sexual harassment allegations. For more information, see our editorial standards. Dive Brief: A former employee at a major nuclear construction project filed a lawsuit in federal court in June against her ...

Dive Brief: Employers need not pay for an employee’s ordinary, midday travel between home and work, the U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday. The agency reached that conclusion in one of two newly issued opinion letters addressing compensable working time. ...

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.  ...