Dive Brief: A jury should hear a former HR business partner’s pregnancy discrimination claim against finance company Santander Consumer USA, a federal district court in Texas held Feb. 4 (Mathew v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc.). The worker produced evidence that the company ...

Dive Brief: More than half of CxOs — C-suite leaders who report to the CEO, excluding the CHRO — say they are likely or extremely likely to leave their job in the next two years, according to a Feb. 5 ...

Dive Brief: Employers across the economy added 228,000 technology occupations during the first month of 2025, marking the second consecutive month of growth, according to a CompTIA review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published Friday.  Open tech jobs also ...

Corrie Hurm is head of claims at Embroker. Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a cornerstone of modern business practices, offering unparalleled efficiencies and innovation. However, its deployment introduces new legal and financial risks, making it imperative for in-house counsel to ...

Dive Brief: Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Board Chair Marvin Kaplan, calling her firing a “blatant violation of the National Labor Relations Act” (Wilcox v. Trump).   According to ...

Dive Brief: Chai Feldblum, former Democratic commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said in a LinkedIn post Thursday that employers may consider certain framings for their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives after the U.S. Department of Justice published ...

In “Other Duties as Assigned,” HR Dive Lead Editor Kate Tornone weighs in on employment trends, compliance best practices and, of course, the situations that require you to go above and beyond your normal duties. Today: mitigating the effects of ...

Total nonfarm payroll rose by 143,000 in January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and unemployment dropped to 4%, with gains largely in healthcare, retail and social assistance. Economists praised the ongoing sturdiness of the market — but ...

The deadline by which federal workers must respond to President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation offer has been extended from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10, a federal judge decided Thursday. Judge George O’Toole of the U.S. District Court for the District ...

HR practitioners often arrive to the field via winding roads that take them from job to job, subject to subject and organization to organization. Opportunities appear at the right place and at the right time, leading to an unexpected, people-centric ...