In a 50 to 49 vote, two independent senators joined Republicans on Wednesday in blocking Lauren McFerran’s nomination to continue serving on the National Labor Relations Board for the next five years. McFerran’s term expires next week. The vote means ...

The Republican sweep in November’s election promises to shake up the HR industry, but for the time being, employers can expect at least a measure of continuity in employee benefits, WTW consultants said in a Dec. 4 virtual event. With ...

About 45% of managers say their company isn’t doing enough to cultivate future leaders, with leadership training named as the most neglected initiative for leadership development, according to a new report from TalentLMS. While 53% of managers said their leaders ...

Dive Brief: Most workers in big economies fear their job skills — driven by the fast pace of technological change — will become partially or fully obsolete within this decade, according to a Dec. 9 report from the Global Labor Market ...

Dive Brief: Wireless World LLC, owner of Elite Wireless Group, Inc., will pay $107,916 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allegations that Elite Wireless allowed a sales manager in his 30s to sexually harass a teenage employee in violation ...

Dive Brief: Only 1 in 5 retired women say retirement has been what they expected, and 1 in 4 say it is not at all what they expected, according to the results of a survey conducted by Morning Consult for ...

Lease agreements appear to anchor many return-to-office policies, with a third of companies that lease space saying their current office lease terms affect their RTO strategies, according to a Dec. 3 report from Resume.org. Among the two-thirds of companies with ...

Dive Brief: Teacher diversity grew slowly between 2014 and 2022, with the percentage of teachers from historically disadvantaged racial groups rising nationwide from 18.3% to 21.1%, according to new research from the National Council on Teacher Quality. Meanwhile, diversity among ...

Dive Brief: Sterling Infosystems, a consumer reporting agency that sells background checks, falsely reported to a prospective employer that a job candidate had a criminal history and an active warrant for her arrest, the candidate alleged in a Nov. 26 ...

Dive Brief: Big 4 accounting firm Deloitte paid newly hired accountants with H-1B visas an estimated 10% less than U.S. workers in similar roles, according to a recent report by researchers from George Mason University, Columbia University, University of Hong ...