Dive Brief: A manager’s use of a single ethnic slur was not enough to show that a Michigan car dealership unlawfully discriminated against an Arab American employee when it fired him, a federal district court held Aug. 28. The plaintiff ...

Dive Brief: Colorado is delaying — by about five months — implementation of its comprehensive artificial intelligence law, which was enacted last year and originally set to go into effect on Feb. 1, 2026. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed a ...

Dive Brief: Forty-eight percent of HR professionals in the U.S. said they’ve considered leaving the field in the next 12 months, according to the 2026 State of People Strategy Report, released Wednesday by HR platform Lattice. Globally, of the more ...

Amid a skills shortage, 73% of hiring professionals in certain industries — such as manufacturing, logistics and engineering — feel pressure to hire quickly, but they also feel the consequences of making rushed recruitment decisions, according to an Aug. 27 ...

Bankers at Australia’s fourth-largest bank learned their jobs were being cut by an automated email sent by accident, several outlets have reported. Roughly 300 employees within the bank’s retail division received an email last week instructing them how to hand ...

Dive Brief: Landmark Dodge and Landmark South, an automotive dealership in Independence, Missouri, will pay $275,000 to settle sex-based discrimination and retaliation claims. The compensation must be paid to six women denied sales jobs, eight men denied office jobs, and ...

Dive Brief: An Illinois jury found in favor of a former Chicago Transit Authority electrician who said he was denied a religious exemption from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Aug. 29 court document.   According to the March 2023 ...

As companies move to focus on sustainability in their supply chains amid disruptions, only 12% of nearly 700 of the world’s largest companies have at least one change goal focused on people, according to a study released last week by ...

If there is one common thread throughout recent research about AI at work, it’s that there is no definitive take on how people are using the technology and how they feel about the imperative to do so. Language learning models ...

Men and women often respond differently when witnessing sexual harassment in the workplace, with women consistently reporting higher empathy toward harassment targets, according to a study by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers. In turn, higher empathy led to a greater ...