Editor’s note: The Back to Basics column serves as an accessible way to understand employment law. If you’re new to HR (or just need a little refresher), follow along as the HR Dive team speaks with legal experts, peruses federal ...
IBM cannot ditch a former employee’s arbitration demand for age discrimination claims even though he missed the arbitration agreement’s stated deadline, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Sept. 30. The plaintiff in Rumsey v. International Business ...
Dive Brief: More than 17,000 job cuts have been directly attributed to artificial intelligence so far this year, with the tech industry leading the way, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a recent report. Most of the cuts were ...
Retention numbers continue to climb, indicating that workers will “job hug” for the next six months and remain in their roles, according to an Oct. 7 report from Eagle Hill Consulting. The firm’s Employee Retention Index has risen to 105.8, ...
Dan Helman is CEO of Think Power Solutions. Utilities are standing on the edge of a workforce cliff. Veteran lineworkers are retiring in droves just as digital tools, from AI-driven inspections to GIS dashboards, become mission-critical. The skills gap ...
Dive Brief: The majority (77%) of employees surveyed by Voya Financial said they plan to spend more time re-assessing their benefit elections during open enrollment this year — up from 69% last year. Likewise, 63% of Americans surveyed told the ...
The human-machine era is here, and CHROs must develop an HR-focused AI strategy to stay ahead, Gartner said in a press release Oct. 2 — but those leaders are struggling to build a culture that will enable this. In other ...
Across industries, 87% of U.S. employees say reputation influenced their decision to take their current role, which was the highest of all countries surveyed, according to an Oct. 6 report from United Culture, a firm that specializes in company culture, ...
Dive Brief: Only 43% of workers surveyed say they know how to enroll in benefits through their employers, according to the results of surveys by New York Life Group Benefit Solutions on employees’ benefits preferences, released Tuesday. At the same ...
A senior HR business partner for ComEd, an electric utility provider in Illinois, lacked sufficient evidence to bring her discrimination and retaliation charges to trial, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois determined Oct. 6. The plaintiff in ...