Dive Brief: A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging the airline discriminated against her based on disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Patterson v. Southwest Airlines Co.). The worker alleged the airline ...
Paying employees to leave the company may actually pay off, according to a study published in the Journal of Management Accounting Research. “Most of what we hear about incentives is how to get people to stay, work harder or perform ...
Dive Brief: For the first time in more than a decade, California looks to update its regulations around leave, reasonable accommodations and temporary transfers for pregnant workers. The California Civil Rights Council on Monday proposed new regulations that, among other ...
Dive Brief: Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs, passed the nation’s first countywide paid parental leave policy on Tuesday. The policy will go into effect one year from the bill’s signing by Allegheny ...
Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor is supporting training in rural communities across the Appalachian, Delta and Northern Border regions with more than $81.5 million in grant funding, according to a Friday news release. The funds are intended to ...
Dive Brief: Globally, nearly a quarter of fathers leave their jobs — either voluntarily or involuntarily — six months after parental leave ends, compared to 30% of mothers, according to an analysis published Friday by Lauren Thomas, an economist at ...
The coming election may be getting in the way of hiring plans, according to survey results released Oct. 14 by Express Employment Professionals and The Harris Poll. Nearly a third of the more than 1,000 U.S. hiring managers surveyed said ...
Dive Brief: Mass surveillance company Flock maintained a “boys club” atmosphere, discriminated against a former major accounts manager based on her gender, and retaliated against her by firing her for complaining, according to allegations detailed in a complaint filed Monday ...
Nearly half of surveyed employers — 48% — think higher education will become more important over the next five years amid growing use of artificial intelligence, while only 26% think it will become less important, according to data released Tuesday ...
The days are getting shorter, sending us indoors to snuggle in with a new book. At HR Dive, we’ve compiled a fall reading list catered to HR professionals, featuring books exploring the world of work and the workplace. From a ...