Dive Brief: Northwestern Mutual must comply with a subpoena issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requesting information about the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs as part of a discrimination probe, a Wisconsin federal judge held Monday. EEOC ...

A company that carried an employment practices liability insurance policy for SHRM filed a lawsuit against the HR organization Tuesday, asking a court to declare that the insurer is not responsible for a multimillion-dollar punitive damage award in a race ...

Amy Diehl is chief information officer at Wilson College, and a gender equity researcher, speaker and lawsuit expert witness. She is co-author of “Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work.” As organizations scale back ...

Dive Brief: Employees are using artificial intelligence to tackle work that falls outside of their typical job duties, and HR practitioners are a professional cohort who most often use the technology to do so, according to an OpenAI analysis published ...

Dive Brief: Worker engagement in the U.S. is six points higher for people whose companies have implemented artificial intelligence than for employees whose organizations have not adopted the technology, according to new research from Gallup. However, that engagement disparity can’t ...

Dive Brief: Apex Fintech Solutions violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired a worker for posts he made on LinkedIn complaining about his company’s “culture of discrimination” against White men, National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Arthur ...

Dive Brief: An Arkansas jury on Friday awarded a male surgical technician formerly employed by Northwest Medical Center-Bentonville $105,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for sex-based discrimination, court documents show (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Northwest Arkansas Hospitals, LLC).  According ...

Gerald Danniel, chief strategy officer and executive vice president at Onvo, a travel stop brand, had to pause the interview. Someone had walked into his office, and he wanted to make sure they were heard.  “They don’t have to jump ...

Dive Brief: Employers expect managers to lead a workforce that has expertise in artificial intelligence, but 43% of managers said they felt either poorly equipped to lead these employees or not equipped at all, according to a new survey from ...

That artificial intelligence tools are in wide use is not in dispute, but company leaders, particularly front-line managers, may not be adequately prepared to adapt to the changes that technology has brought, various stories and studies have said. Without effective ...