As companies finish their annual compensation talks and send out emails cementing pay for the next year, Payscale CFO Philip Watson wants CFOs to think about ways they can keep the conversation going.  Watson, who joined the Boston-based compensation software ...

Dive Brief: A federal judge sided with Western & Southern Financial Group in a retirement benefits discrimination lawsuit on Monday, holding that the insurer did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it fired an employee days before ...

Companies are spending enormous amounts of time, energy and money to train their workers to be ready for artificial intelligence tools, but these efforts are often falling short — or failing outright, recent reports indicated.  In its 2026 AI Readiness ...

Dive Brief: A lack of feedback from employers has led many job seekers to use a “spray and pray” application process, with 48% saying they frequently or regularly apply to many roles quickly, instead of focusing their efforts, according to ...

UPDATE: April 14, 2026: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on Friday it settled with a Missouri subsidiary of Republic Services for $200,000. The agreement brings an end to a lawsuit that alleged the business refused to hire a ...

Dive Brief: A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation found Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Hillcrest Medical Center violated the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, the agency announced in a Monday news release. According to DOL, Hillcrest ...

Dive Brief: The increasing cost of medical care is driving more workers to forgo needed care or stop taking medications, ADP found in a recently released employee benefits survey.  Twenty-six percent of respondents said they’d skipped needed medical care for ...

Dive Brief: Nearly one-third of customer service agents say they are likely to quit their current role within the next six months, according to a Verint survey released Tuesday. Verint, a customer service automation company, surveyed 1,000 agents at organizations with ...

Public recognition and mentorship programs are two ways employers create a culture of learning, but close to 3 in 4 organizations said they lack the staff and time to support such a culture, according to an April 7 report from ...

Dive Brief: Human resources skills were the third-most sought after job skill set, listed as a requirement in 27.3% of all U.S. job postings at the end of 2025, according to a new report from Indeed Hiring Lab. The report ...