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Despite increasing adoption of artificial intelligence tools at work, many U.S. employees remain uneasy about how AI may shape the future of work — and the companies that use it, according to a Monday report from SHL, a talent insight ...
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 119,000 jobs in September, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics belatedly announced Nov. 20 — an unexpectedly high number complicated by downward revisions for July and August. The unemployment rate also rose to 4.4%, a ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published a technical assistance document Wednesday laying out how anti-American bias — a form of national origin discrimination — can run afoul of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “The EEOC ...
At 6 a.m. on Nov. 11, Amber Czech was found dead at her work station at Advanced Process Technologies, in Cokato, Minnesota. She was 20. Czech, who had finished a 10-month welding program in spring 2024, was still new to ...
A crackdown on “illegal” DEI and other White House-driven shifts dominated the conversations at the American Bar Association’s 19th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference last week. The Denver event drew attendees — both management-side lawyers and plaintiffs’ attorneys — ...
Dive Brief: Seven in 10 hiring managers in the U.S. say AI helps them make faster and better hiring decisions with fewer recruiter resources, hiring platform Greenhouse noted in a media release announcing its Nov. 18 report on AI in ...
As economic conditions stabilize, executive pay is also leveling off as corporate boards adopt performance-based strategies to attract and retain top talent, according to a Nov. 13 report from Gallagher. CEO pay jumped significantly in 2024, driven by market recovery ...
Dive Brief: Eighty-two percent of companies still plan to give executives bonuses this year, according to results of a November Resume.org survey released Wednesday. Meanwhile, nearly a third of companies plan to lay off workers before the end of the ...
The share of searches for apprenticeship opportunities has steadily increased since 2020, more than doubling in the past five years and rising 35% in 2025 alone, according to a Nov. 14 report from Indeed Hiring Lab. The number of apprenticeships ...