Dive Brief: Professional services firm Aon allegedly fired an employee because she has attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, after she requested and received an accommodation to work in the office, according to a July 23 lawsuit. Per the complaint in Gomez v. ...
Since President Donald Trump was reelected last fall, 20% of companies have scrapped their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to a July 23 Resume.org report. Another 16% said they’re likely to do so by the end of the year, ...
Dive Brief: Hospitality employers and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities can mutually benefit when hotels employ these workers, according to new research from Penn State University’s School of Hospitality Management. According to the research, individuals with intellectual and developmental ...
Workplace discourse often trickles into trending topics — think “quiet quitting” or the hybrid work wars — but it’s rare that an HR professional becomes the nightly news story. By now, many in the profession have likely heard of tech ...
Candidate ghosting is the hiring world’s version of a disappearing act—one minute they’re eager, the next, radio silence. And it’s happening more than ever. According to SHRM data, 46% of employers report a spike in no-shows and silent dropouts. In ...
The noise of work is hard to ignore. Between relentless notifications, always-on visibility, and meetings that rarely justify their own invites, we’re more and more disillusioned with what we want from our jobs, or how to find a happy medium. ...
An employee’s request for disability leave until “September or October” wasn’t specific enough to render the time off a reasonable accommodation, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday (Coffman v. Nexstar Media Inc.). The employee, a former account ...
TD will require its executive-level employees to work from the office four days a week beginning Oct. 6, the bank said in a memo Wednesday. The bank’s non-executive employees are expected to follow Nov. 3. “We’ve seen that when we ...
Although wage growth has cooled since 2022’s highs, it remained above inflation and held stable in June, according to a July 24 report from Indeed’s Hiring Lab. Based on federal data, 57% of workers’ pay grew faster than inflation, up ...
Most HR leaders (73%) and workers (60%) say they’re prepared for change and confident about their organizations’ ability to manage future change, according to a July 22 report from The Conference Board. However, HR leaders were less likely to see ...