Dive Brief: A former delivery driver for a Michigan manufacturer failed to show he was fired because of his disability or his related workers’ compensation claims rather than the employer’s finding that he was responsible for painting graffiti on goods ...

Dive Brief: A former market manager at a Pennsylvania-area Walmart filed a lawsuit against the company Oct. 2, alleging he was punished and eventually terminated for complaining about the conduct of two African American senior leaders through a tip line ...

In the small city of Sheffield, Iowa, it was not uncommon for people to drive more than 30 miles for child care just a few years ago.  Emily Schmitt, chief administrative officer and general counsel at Iowa-based Sukup Manufacturing Co., recalled ...

Managers play a critical role in company culture, and if they’re happy, their teams tend to be happy as well, according to an Oct. 1 report from Glassdoor. In fact, manager satisfaction appears to be associated with higher worker ratings ...

With the government shut down, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s office now sits largely closed — a symbolic cap to a year that saw the lowest litigation rate in 10 years, according to Christopher DeGroff and Andrew Scroggins, partners ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Senate confirmed Brittany Panuccio, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Justice Department in Florida, as a commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a 51-47 vote Tuesday. Panuccio’s confirmation was part of an en ...

Gleb Tsipursky is CEO of the hybrid work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of the best-seller “Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams.” The conversation about generative AI is unavoidable in today’s business landscape. It’s disruptive, ...

Talent development professionals need to know how to choose the right tools for their organizations’ learning goals — or they may be left out of the conversation, according to an Association for Talent Development report released Oct. 2. The technological ...

Businesses have less than three months to become compliant with California’s new rules regulating automated decision-making. The California Privacy Protection Agency finalized regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act on Sept. 23, and the rules will go into effect Jan. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a string of consequential employment law rulings in recent years, from its 2020 decision on LGBTQ+ discrimination in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga., to last session’s ruling on evidentiary standards in overtime pay ...