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AI-based salary research fuels inflated expectations, Payscale finds

Dive Brief: Nearly 1 in 5 workers use generative AI to research salaries, 27% of whom said it inflated their compensation expectations, according to Payscale’s 2025 Pay Confidence Gap Report, released Tuesday.  Employers are noticing, too; seventy percent of organizations ...

4 in 10 new hires say they second-guess their decision during onboarding

Nearly 4 in 10 new hires — including 1 in 2 Generation Z workers — reported second thoughts about taking a job during the onboarding process, according to a July 15 report from TalentLMS and BambooHR. More than half of ...

Leading Mental Health Expert Urges UK Businesses to Link Employee Wellbeing with Business Outcomes

A leading expert in mental health and workplace wellbeing is urging UK employers to stop viewing employee wellness and business performance as two unrelated challenges. Dr Michelle Main, Head of EAP Services at TAC Healthcare and a cognitive psychology PhD, ...

In California, new car dealers look to apprenticeships to fill talent gaps

New car dealers in California are launching an apprenticeship program to recruit and train workers who want to become automotive service technicians, according to a July 10 announcement. In a partnership between the California New Car Dealers Association Foundation and ...

Employer settles claims that it refused to promote Black employee, fired her after bias complaint

Dive Brief: A Maryland retirement community will pay $85,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that it refused to promote a Black manager and subsequently fired her when she complained of discrimination, EEOC said in a press release ...

‘Heavy lift’: Colorado AI law sets high bar, analysts say

The recent failed push by members of Congress to freeze artificial intelligence laws at the state level has left U.S. companies with national operations facing a patchwork of rules on the technology. A Colorado AI statute set to go into effect next ...

Lender reaches agreement with EEOC over claims it ignored supervisor’s harassment victims

Dive Brief: Academy Mortgage Corp. entered into a public conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve sexual harassment and retaliation charges, the agency announced Tuesday. A former supervisor at the Albuquerque-based mortgage lender allegedly sexually harassed ...

Nearly 9% of younger workers use alcohol or drugs at work, study shows

About 9% of U.S. workers in their early 30s use alcohol, marijuana or hard drugs while at work, according to a July 8 report from researchers at The Ohio State University. The risk for substance use was highest among workers ...

Nearly half of workers have considered quitting over employer’s ethics, report finds

Workplace trust issues can wreck retention, with 47% of workers saying they’ve thought about quitting over ethical inconsistencies, according to a recent report from Resume Now. Workers expressed concerns about their employer’s actions not aligning with its established values. At ...

Performance reviews undermine woman’s bias claim against Exxon Mobil, 7th Circuit says

Dive Brief: A former laboratory technician for Exxon Mobil failed to show that the employer fired her on the basis of her sex in part because she lacked evidence to counter the company’s claim that its decision hinged upon her ...