Mastercard has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a proposed class action on behalf of about 7,500 employees who alleged the card network underpaid Black, Hispanic and female workers. The settlement also requires the company to conduct annual pay ...

Dive Brief: Only 19% of U.S. companies have a pay transparency strategy in place, according to the results of Mercer’s 2024 Global Pay Transparency Survey Report, which were released Jan. 10.  Despite that, 63% of U.S. organizations said they planned ...

Nearly half of the 1,200 employees surveyed by TalentLMS said they believe artificial intelligence is advancing faster than their company’s ability to train them, according to the company’s report released Jan. 14. More than half surveyed reported a “clear lack ...

Amazon is the latest company to shift the tone of its approach to diversity and inclusion, according to internal memo released Dec. 16, reportedly obtained by CNBC. What Candi Castleberry, Amazon’s VP of inclusive experiences and technology, outlined concretely is ...

Employee engagement in the U.S. fell to the lowest level in a decade at the end of 2024, with only 31% of employees being engaged and 17% of employees being actively disengaged, according to a Jan. 14 report from Gallup. ...

Dive Brief: An Alaska seafood company did not need to provide overtime pay to a group of workers who were on-call while they were required to stay on the company’s premises during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...

The U.S. Department of Labor is increasingly asking for employers’ wage and compensation practices as part of Family and Medical Leave Act investigations, attorneys at employer-side firm Littler Mendelson told HR Dive. Jeff Nowak, shareholder at the firm and author ...

In a Jan. 3 ruling, a unanimous, three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the interview process the U.S. Department of Defense used to promote a male employee instead of a female employee to a newly ...

As employers refine their return-to-office policies, they’re reporting a mix of positive and negative results related to employee morale, recruitment and retention, according to a recent report by Pearl Meyer. In a survey of 300 HR professionals and other leaders, ...

The roomful of union professionals seemed almost giddy with energy: friendly heckles, inside jokes, plenty of laughter. They were gathered for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference, held this year in Austin, TX. The press ...