The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a June 27 lawsuit that Pearson Education, Inc., failed to provide equal access to training for employees with visual impairments The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

SAN DIEGO — Artificial intelligence may not take a worker’s job, but someone who uses it will, warned Reagan Kelley, a human resources consulting director for Marsh McLennan Agency, during SHRM’s annual conference in San Diego, Calif.  As the technology ...

Job seekers increasingly expect skills-building opportunities and continuous learning from their employers, which is affecting job choices, according to a June 24 report from Aerotek, a workplace solutions provider in manufacturing, logistics, construction, aviation, facilities and maintenance. Nearly three-quarters of ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday withdrew a Biden-era rule that aimed to phase out a section of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allowed employers to pay certain workers with disabilities wage rates that fall below ...

Chief human resource officers often play a more critical role than chief executive officers in CEO succession planning, particularly when defining the process, shaping criteria and objectively evaluating candidates, according to a June 20 report from the HR Policy Association ...

Dive Brief: The owners of the Venetian Resort Las Vegas agreed to pay $850,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the resort refused to accommodate employees of diverse religious faiths, including Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, ...

Both employers and employees are “waiting for clearer signals” before making moves, the most recent job numbers indicate, according to Ger Doyle, regional president, North America at ManpowerGroup. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 147,000 last month, and the unemployment rate ...

Workplace AI adoption favours senior staff, leaving junior employees without key tools 73% of managers use AI each month, but uptake among entry-level roles is just 32% Millennials, not Gen Z, are the most active users of AI technology at ...

A large majority of U.S. adults in a May survey by Bankrate, 77%, said they aren’t financially secure, signaling a steady increase going back to 2023 and spelling potential complications for employers’ pay strategies. Additionally, more than one-quarter of the 2,260 ...

Dive Brief: About one-third of organizations have advanced to full-scale deployment of agentic artificial intelligence technology, up three-fold after two consecutive quarters at 11%, according to a KPMG study released Thursday. Fifty-seven percent of surveyed organizations are piloting agents, down ...