Dive Brief: IBM has been sued for at least the second time in less than a year for allegedly firing an African American executive because of her race and allegedly in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to end employment-related ...
Total nonfarm payroll rose by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, beating economists’ expectations despite being considered a slowdown compared to March. The numbers point to a market becoming ...
Dive Brief: U.S. technology companies announced 33,361 job cuts in April, bringing the sector’s total layoffs for the first four months of 2026 to 85,411 — a year-over-year increase of 33%, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a ...
Dive Brief: The merit increases employers awarded this year were only slightly below previous projections, with a mean 3.1% merit increase, versus a 3.2% projection in October 2025, according to the latest Mercer QuickPulse Compensation Planning Survey. Average total increases ...
Dive Brief: Altering the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to remove protections for workers undergoing fertility treatments could cause employers to unlawfully deny accommodation requests, a group of Democratic senators wrote to ...
Dive Brief: The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry recovered $1.28 million in back wages and liquidated damages for construction workers following an investigation into multiple firms, according to an April 27 news release. The case found Property Maintenance and ...
Dive Brief: While nearly 7 in 10 companies cover GLP-1s for weight management, that share is expected to fall next year, according to the results of a survey released Tuesday by the Business Group on Health, a healthcare policy advocate ...
Dive Brief: Three-quarters of corporate board members said they believe their knowledge of artificial intelligence technology is equal to or ahead of their peers, but almost 40% of CEOs said boards lacked “an informed view of how AI is reshaping ...
Dive Brief: Organizations are implementing AI faster than building the skills, structure and human support needed to sustain it in the long run, according to Aon’s 2026 Human Capital Trends Study, released April 28. A recent survey of more than ...
Dive Brief: The National Education Association is being accused of antisemitism by the Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 29. The Brandeis Center Coalition ...