National origin bias enforcement is changing under President Donald Trump’s second administration. Employment discrimination based on national origin — just like discrimination based on race, sex, color and religion —  has long been illegal. But the way that federal agencies ...

Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence adoption may not be making employees feel positively about themselves, with many workers reporting that while they think AI has had a positive impact on their company, they’re not certain it’s been good for them personally, ...

Dive Brief: Cost of living has become a drag on career growth, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults by online learning provider Penn Foster, with 1 in 4 respondents saying they felt less confident about their ability to ...

Dive Brief: Workday is betting the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence adoption will be less about assistants that respond to prompts and more about agents that can initiate and carry out tasks — from spotting missing payroll data to preparing ...

Dive Brief: A roofer for Florida-based Ultrack Construction filed a proposed collective-action lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act on Thursday, alleging the company failed to pay overtime and retaliated against him for complaining (Cedeno v. Ultrack Construction). The plaintiff ...

SHRM, the HR membership organization that calls itself “the trusted authority on all things work,” lost its second employment-related jury trial in under a year on Friday, after a jury returned a verdict finding SHRM violated the Americans with Disabilities ...

Employees may not understand which skills they need — and are losing resources that may help them develop said skills, according to an Oct. 7 report from WTW, a global advisory company. Work is changing quickly, the report noted, but ...

Dive Brief: Researchers found no evidence that including a noncompete agreement in an employment contract reduced the leakage of sensitive data “beyond what a standard nondisclosure agreement already provides,” according to research recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.  ...

Dive Brief: While close to 85% of HR leaders told Betterworks they are “very” or “extremely” confident that performance management can help with organizational priorities, only 44% said they could provide business metrics to back up their position. The findings ...

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 ...