Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor informed the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that it will abandon the Biden administration’s rule allowing pension plan fiduciaries to consider ESG factors and other “collateral benefits” in tiebreaker situations, according ...

Dive Brief: The widow of a former Coca-Cola executive sued the company on May 16 for allegedly violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act after it withheld the executive’s retirement benefits following his death, according to the complaint in Gervait ...

As Generation Z workers embrace artificial intelligence tools in the workplace, more than half said they see ChatGPT as a co-worker or even a friend, according to a May 21 report from Resume.org. Nearly half of Gen Z workers also ...

Despite global economic uncertainty and increasing healthcare costs, 93% of employers surveyed said they plan to maintain or expand well-being offerings for 2025, according to a May 20 report from Business Group on Health. Among those employers, 73% said they ...

Dive Brief: The National Labor Relations Board may not revive an effort to collect $100,000 in back pay from a Louisiana plumbing company that stalled for nearly a decade, a divided three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration on Wednesday rescinded a Biden-era warning that cautioned 401(k) plan fiduciaries against offering cryptocurrency options. The 2022 guidance urged fiduciaries to exercise “extreme care” before adding cryptocurrency to their ...

A majority of U.S. workers — 54% — say job insecurity has significantly affected their stress levels at work, according to a May 21 report from the American Psychological Association. In addition, 65% said their company has been affected by ...

Forty-two percent of Generation Z adults are currently working in or pursuing a blue-collar or skilled trade job, according to a May 20 report from Resume Builder. Of those, 37% have earned a bachelor’s degree.  In the survey of more ...

Dive Brief: A former interim watershed director for the city of Atlanta was demoted and passed over for promotions due to her conduct — not her sex nor in retaliation for taking Family and Medical Leave Act leave — the ...

Executive pay is beginning to look the same everywhere as corporate boards pay CEOs similarly, and that could affect company performance, according to a recent study from a Virginia Tech researcher.  CEO compensation has become 24% more similar at public ...