Dive Brief: The Federal Trade Commission is urging major healthcare employers and staffing companies to review their employment agreements to root out any restrictive noncompete clauses. On Wednesday, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent letters to an unspecified number of healthcare companies ...

Karina B. Sterman, Esq., is a partner in Greenberg Glusker’s litigation and employment law groups. In today’s hybrid workplaces, where conversations unfold across Slack threads and performance feedback arrives via email, personnel records are no longer confined to filing cabinets ...

Religious rights are having a moment.  Intertwined with political issues like the Israel-Hamas war, gender identity and vaccine mandates, employees nationwide are filing a variety of lawsuits that challenge workplace policies and bring sensitive issues like bodily autonomy, respect for ...

Dive Brief: Pay raise budgets for next year are predicted to mirror 2025’s increases, according to a Sept. 3 report from The Conference Board. On average, companies said they plan to up their salary budgets by 3.4% in 2026.    Actual ...

Chief human resources officers need to take a more active role in strengthening their organization’s digital security, particularly as more HR functions incorporate artificial intelligence and automation tools, according to a Sept. 3 report from Gartner. Gartner identified four steps ...

Dive Brief: Job seekers commenting on Glassdoor mentioned ageism at skyrocketing rates in 1Q 2025, a 133% year-over-year increase, the platform reported Sept. 2. While mentions of ageism dipped slightly last quarter, they’re still 20% higher than Q3 2024, the ...

In the complex world of HR, managing employee benefits often feels like a constant battle against rising costs and the challenge of meeting diverse employee needs. Traditional group health plans, while familiar, frequently lead to unpredictable premium hikes and a ...

Dive Brief: A supervisor’s whispered comments to a Merck biotechnician about the tone of his voice did not constitute actionable harassment, according to a Sept. 8 decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff ...

Dive Brief: A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Houston County, Georgia, did not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by denying coverage of gender-affirming care for a transgender Houston County Sheriff’s Office employee (Lange v. Houston County, ...

Jason Lee is the chief of enterprise at neobank Chime, and the founder of fintechs DailyPay and Salt Labs. Ten years ago, earned wage access (“EWA”) start-ups had the courage to change a century-old pay system. By converting raw, unaudited ...