For the first time in 12 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish its monthly “Employment Situation” report on the first Friday of the month due to the federal government shutdown — only the latest problem du ...

Dive Brief: Republican and Democratic leaders traded blame for a government shutdown on Wednesday that put hundreds of thousands of workers on furlough, gave the Trump administration a potential opening to slash the federal workforce and imperiled the timely release ...

Dive Brief: Outside of compensation, the main reasons employees unionize include a desire for better work/life balance, more input into business decisions and more job security, said employers who had experienced unionization over the past two years and who had been ...

Dive Brief: Eighty-four percent of hiring managers say they’ll provide higher salaries to candidates who have skills in high demand, according to business consulting firm Robert Half’s 2026 Salary Guide, which was released Monday.  Hiring managers identified artificial intelligence, machine ...

Dive Brief: Knowledge workers say they would delegate 27% of their work to AI agents today and expect this to grow to more than 40% in 3 years, according to Asana’s State of AI at Work report, released Sept. 25. ...

Dive Brief: The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking details from 10 major U.S. companies, including tech giants Amazon, Apple and Meta, regarding their recruitment and hiring practices related to H-1B visa holders. Over the ...

Among companies with remote-first schedules as their default mode of work, 83% reported high productivity, with 21% saying it’s “very high,” according to a Sept. 24 report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity and Akamai Technologies, a cybersecurity and cloud ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that Apple failed to accommodate a Jewish worker’s faith and then fired him because of his religion and in retaliation for complaining of religious discrimination (EEOC ...

Congressional lawmakers failed to avert a federal government shutdown Tuesday night, despite the Republican majority’s efforts to put forth a short-term spending measure to fund the government through late November, the Associated Press reported. HR professionals who have been part ...

2025 has been a challenging year for diversity, equity and inclusion. Compounded with DEI budgets that began to wane in 2023 and the definitive cultural shift away from DEI in 2024, President Donald Trump issued executive orders challenging DEI’s place ...