The state of Massachusetts in the past week made a series of moves, including the awarding of school grants and approving a public-private training program, aimed at alleviating the skilled trades shortage and bolstering apprenticeships. The state awarded $24.2 million ...
Virtual job interview training can help people returning from incarceration to improve their job prospects by practicing interviews in realistic scenarios, according to a study published Aug. 5 by University of Michigan researchers. In the study, an online simulator boosted ...
Dive Brief: A 2024 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discrimination charge constituted an overly broad and vague “fishing expedition” that should be blocked by a federal judge, the board of education for New Mexico’s Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools district alleged in ...
The percentage of CEOs who expect a reduction in their workforce during the next 12 months rose for the fifth consecutive quarter, climbing from 28% in the second quarter to 34%, according to an Aug. 7 report from The Conference ...
Dive Brief: Eighty percent of hiring managers think a recession is looming, and nearly half expect it to rear its head within the next year, according to the results of an Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey, released Wednesday. In response, ...
A key part of President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, released in July 2025, is removing “red tape.” As an initial step, Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden’s executive order on the “safe, secure, and trustworthy development” of artificial intelligence. ...
The U.S. Department of Labor will provide $30 million in funding to the Industry-Driven Skills Training Fund grant program to help address critical workforce shortages nationwide, according to a Monday press release. The department’s Employment and Training Administration will use ...
Amid rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools at work, 45% of workers say they’ve used banned AI tools on the job, according to an Aug. 5 report from Anagram, a security training company. In addition, 40% said they’d knowingly violate ...
Ikea has agreed to settle five lawsuits alleging age bias at the company, according to court documents filed Aug. 6. Among the resolved cases was a 2019 lawsuit (Paine v. IKEA Holding US, Inc. et al.) claiming the retailer maintained ...
A former sales representative for cleaning products manufacturer Zep, Inc., cannot proceed on her Title VII harassment claim related to the behavior of a client because she could not show the company intended for it to occur, the 6th U.S. ...