Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 139,000 last month, according to Friday data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%. Employment continued to trend up in healthcare, social assistance and leisure and hospitality, ...

Dive Brief: Teens’ postsecondary plans are shifting, with just 45% of students in grades 7-12 seeing a two- or four-year college as their most likely next step in 2024, according to a new survey from national nonprofit American Student Assistance. ...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part HR Dive series about the effects of climate change on worker health. Part two will focus on workplace safety strategies and the growing push by state and federal lawmakers to ...

A federal appeals court’s “background circumstances” requirement for majority-group plaintiffs who seek to prove job discrimination cuts against both Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for a unanimous ...

Dive Brief: Work can either fuel employee well-being or become a source of strain for employees already stressed out by economic volatility and political tension, according to a May 12 survey of employee mental health by Inmar Intelligence. Of the ...

T-Mobile must face a former employee’s race bias claim, a judge held Monday, finding that the company offered contradictory reasons for reducing her bonus and firing her. In a lawsuit, the worker alleged she received a reduced bonus and was ...

President Donald Trump’s push to remove undocumented workers from industries across the country played out on several construction sites last week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested over 100 undocumented workers during a jobsite raid in Tallahassee, Florida, on May ...

Dive Brief: Most organizations don’t see the benefits of their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives because they place too much emphasis on the wrong goal — hiring diverse talent, according to a May 26 analysis published in the MIT Sloan Management ...

Through its first five months, 2025 has not been kind to diversity, equity and inclusion.  On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting “wasteful government DEI programs” in which his administration characterized government DEI ...

Few companies have aligned their workforce strategies with their artificial intelligence investments, leaving a major gap in preparedness and talent needs, according to a May 29 report from Kyndryl, an enterprise technology services firm. About 7 in 10 leaders responding ...