Dive Brief: Since at least November 2021, male cooks at Boss Man Tacos in Highland, Indiana, subjected female employees, many of whom were servers in their teams, to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a July ...
Although a majority of employees say they feel empowered at work, 42% don’t act on it — revealing a disconnect that could detract from employee potential in the workplace, according to a July 25 report from Wiley Workplace Intelligence. These ...
Most workers with side hustles aren’t leaving their full-time jobs to become business owners — instead, they’re using their side gigs as insurance policies for financial stability, according to a July 29 report from Glassdoor. Although the percentage of workers ...
Dive Brief: A lab operator for the U.S. Department of Energy should prevail in a Christian employee resource group’s lawsuit alleging it discriminated against the ERG when it revoked sponsorship over a policy disagreement, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Dive Brief: The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, illegally refused a security guard’s religious request to be exempted from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday (EEOC v. Mayo Clinic). The ...
The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas, acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to a second term at the agency Thursday in a party-line vote. Lucas’ new term expires July 1, 2030. “I am honored to be confirmed ...
The job market is weaker than previously thought, Friday numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed. Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in July, the agency said, with employers adding just 73,000 jobs. The unemployment rate increased slightly, ...
Dive Brief: Amazon repeatedly violated the National Labor Relations Act when supervisors and loss prevention personnel prohibited off-duty employees from engaging in union-organizing and other protected activity in warehouse parking lots in Chicago, St. Louis and New York state, an administrative ...
Don Brock is a retired senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in food and consumer product manufacturing. Opinions are the author’s own. Manufacturing in the United States isn’t romantic. Despite what glossy ads, political speeches and tech ...
Employers receiving federal funds may not mandate diverse hiring slates or conduct race-based training, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a guidance announced Wednesday. The agency said those and numerous other initiatives are often touted as DEI but actually ...