California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into effect a series of bills this week aimed at regulating workplace artificial intelligence in a bid to create a “nation-leading framework” for protecting workers and consumers, his office said in a press release issued ...

Dive Brief: Bollinger Shipyards allegedly discriminated against five qualified job applicants by withdrawing their offers based on potential side effects of their prescription medication, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit filed Sept. 30. The maritime construction and ...

Dive Brief: The language women generally use to draft work correspondence can lead commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to create “less sophisticated responses” compared to what AI writes after being prompted with language commonly used by men, according to new ...

Many workplaces have implemented return-to-office mandates, but at what cost? Approximately $6,736 per year, or 9.3% of a typical salary, according to a resume builder Resume.io analysis, which called the cost an RTO tax. For parents who need to pay ...

Dive Brief: Employers are increasingly wary when it comes to vetting job candidates, with 19.2% saying encountering fake or fraudulent applicants was the top online recruiting challenge, and 23.6% saying they received at least one fake job applicant in the ...

Finance software firm Esker is factoring artificial intelligence token consumption into its employee expense planning as the company seeks to better manage the technology’s increasingly unpredictable costs, CFO Scott McDermott said. The company ramped up its use of AI this ...

Dive Brief: While value-based care has long been heralded as a way to reduce healthcare costs, 40% of employers said they haven’t linked any of their spending to such a model, according to results of a survey by professional services ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation did not support a lesbian plaintiff’s argument that her employer’s infertility treatment benefits contained unlawful terms that prevented her from accessing coverage at ...

Dive Brief: Mark O’Donovan, JPMorgan Chase’s international consumer banking chief, will become the bank’s next head of human resources in January, CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday in a memo shared with Banking Dive. O’Donovan will succeed Robin Leopold, who is ...

Dive Brief: A Wisconsin winter sports venue will pay $20,000 to settle claims that it fired a Christian employee over religious posts made to his personal social media accounts that a manager flagged as discriminatory toward gay people, the U.S. ...