Dive Brief: Chai Feldblum, former Democratic commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said in a LinkedIn post Thursday that employers may consider certain framings for their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives after the U.S. Department of Justice published ...

In “Other Duties as Assigned,” HR Dive Lead Editor Kate Tornone weighs in on employment trends, compliance best practices and, of course, the situations that require you to go above and beyond your normal duties. Today: mitigating the effects of ...

Total nonfarm payroll rose by 143,000 in January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and unemployment dropped to 4%, with gains largely in healthcare, retail and social assistance. Economists praised the ongoing sturdiness of the market — but ...

The deadline by which federal workers must respond to President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation offer has been extended from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10, a federal judge decided Thursday. Judge George O’Toole of the U.S. District Court for the District ...

HR practitioners often arrive to the field via winding roads that take them from job to job, subject to subject and organization to organization. Opportunities appear at the right place and at the right time, leading to an unexpected, people-centric ...

Dive Brief: Among the country’s top earners, those who make $250,000 or more have the greatest chance to work remotely, according to a Feb. 5 report by Ladders, a job site sharing positions with salaries of $100,000 or more annually. ...

Dive Brief: HR teams may be relying on misleading employee engagement surveys to develop initiatives and make critical decisions about productivity and agility, according to a February report by people analytics firm Visier. Nearly half (47%) of 1,000 U.S.-based employees ...

Dive Brief: Cigna has released a plan it says will make healthcare more affordable and accessible for its members — including tying executive compensation to customer satisfaction — as health insurers continue to reckon with discontent with their industry since the killing of ...

Amid faster-than-expected election results, workers across the country may be grappling with unusually high stress that spills into their work lives. And the workers likely to be dealing with these outcomes are the nation’s already stressed and burned out managers, ...

Dive Brief: Former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair and Commissioner Charlotte A Burrows will be represented by Lisa Banks and Debra Katz — the same attorneys who represented Christine Blasey Ford —Katz Banks Kumin announced Jan. 28, the day after ...