Most-clicked story of the week The federal government’s workplace bias watchdog rescinded its affirmative action guidelines, dropping a longstanding interpretation of the law. The move aligns with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s strategy, outlined in a new enforcement plan. ...

Dive Brief: When a workplace is toxic, 79% of U.S. employees blame bad leadership, with respondents citing unethical, unaccountable and unsupportive behavior, according to employment platform iHire’s 2026 Toxic Workplace Trends Report. The second most cited issue was poor communication ...

For many small businesses, employee classification feels like an administrative task that gets handled during onboarding and rarely revisited. One employee is salaried, another is hourly, payroll runs and business moves forward. But as labor laws continue to evolve and ...

Dive Brief: HR is still adapting to artificial intelligence rather than taking the lead on redesigning the workflow around AI, according to a report released by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) Tuesday. After surveying more than 1,300 business and ...

Employer use of third-party administrators to handle reasonable accommodations can be “inherently problematic,” a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney cautioned Monday. The warning came as the agency announced a settlement agreement with retailer JCPenney. EEOC had alleged in a ...

Dive Brief: With employers failing to provide the tools and resources workers need to use artificial intelligence in their jobs, more than 3 in 4 employees are finding and signing up for AI on their own — a trend referred ...

Dive Brief: Most workers take one vacation day at a time, according to data from the Deel HR platform analyzed with venture capital firm a16z. That’s followed by one-week breaks and two-week vacations, per the data, which skews toward startups, ...

Dive Brief: Technology firms accounted for nearly a third of all U.S. job cuts in the first half of 2026, underscoring the sector’s central role in ongoing workforce restructuring driven in large part by artificial intelligence disruption, outplacement firm Challenger, ...

Total nonfarm payroll rose by 57,000 jobs in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, considerably fewer jobs than private-sector projections indicated. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%, due mostly to the labor participation rate falling, economists ...

Dive Brief: Paycom Payroll LLC failed to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee with a severe food allergy and then terminated her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.  The Oklahoma-based payroll and human capital ...