A transgender worker’s discrimination claim can move forward after an Alabama district court determined she provided enough information to suggest sex discrimination, according to a court opinion filed Wednesday in Travis v. Federal Injury Center of Birmingham, LLC. The worker, ...
Dive Brief: IBM will pay more than $17 million to settle U.S. Department of Justice allegations that the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs violated the False Claims Act and did not comply with antidiscrimination requirements for federal contractors, the ...
Several plaintiffs filed class-action lawsuits in a California federal court on April 1 claiming damages resulting from an alleged data breach affecting Mercor, a recruiting company for artificial intelligence industry professionals. At least four such cases appeared in the U.S. ...
Alison Lands is a vice president in the employer mobilization practice at Jobs for the Future. Artificial intelligence promises to make hiring smarter and more objective. But in practice, AI-powered tools are introducing new layers of inconsistency and doubt at a moment ...
Dive Brief: FedEx has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract for its more than 5,000 pilots following prolonged negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association, International, the company announced Wednesday. The tentative agreement includes hourly pay increases ...
Most clicked story of the week When payroll is poorly governed, employers can lose millions of dollars to waste and potential fraud each year, according to a report from UKG and KPMG. “Payroll leakage” — problems created by bad processes ...
GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) medications have become one of the most talked-about, and most challenging, topics in employer-sponsored health plans. What began as a treatment for diabetes is now widely used for weight management, driving unprecedented demand from employees. ...
For years, Employer of Record (EOR) has been positioned as a tactical solution, something companies use when they want to enter a new market quickly, without setting up a legal entity. That framing is starting to break. Because global hiring ...
Dive Brief: A former security guard for Weiser Security Services failed to show that under a “cat’s paw” theory of liability, his supervisor manipulated a manager into firing him because he told HR the supervisor allegedly gave female employees preferential ...
Dive Brief: xAI filed a lawsuit Thursday attempting to block enforcement of a Colorado law that would prohibit algorithmic discrimination by entities deploying artificial intelligence systems, alleging that the law violates several components of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the SpaceX ...