Was the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission soliciting White men for workplace discrimination charges on the bingo card for 2025? Maybe. For many HR professionals and both management-side and employee-side attorneys, “reverse discrimination” has long been on the radar. As ...
Dive Brief: EEO Leaders, a group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Labor officials, questioned EEOC’s proposed rescission of anti-harassment guidance in a letter released Tuesday. The group said EEOC’s Dec. 29 request to the White ...
Dive Brief: Starbucks is facing a lawsuit from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who alleged that the coffee company used diversity, equity and inclusion “as an excuse” to “implement illegal race-based policies for hiring and advancement” in a Wednesday post on ...
Dive Brief: Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. and Marriott Ownership Resorts agreed to pay $175,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allegations they discriminated against an employee by revoking her religious accommodation despite no undue hardship, the agency announced Thursday. ...
The Cellular Connection, which sells Verizon products, did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when it terminated an employee who claimed his depression caused him to fall short on performance goals and miss work events, a federal district court ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday challenging the growing ecosystem of state AI laws and setting the stage for a federal policy to oversee the technology, citing concerns over compliance challenges for businesses and stymying innovation. The executive ...
Dive Brief: JPMorgan Chase subjected Black job candidates to “fake” interviews as part of its “performative” approach to DEI, an applicant with more than two decades of experience in the financial services industry alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday (Jackson ...
Dive Brief: Hiring intentions appear to be set for a rebound in 2026, according to a recent Express Employment Professionals and Harris Poll survey, though organizations still expect to confront skill gaps and technology-induced job cuts. Two-thirds of U.S. hiring ...
Dive Brief: A group of 20 states filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that President Donald Trump’s proclamation implementing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B skilled worker visas is unlawful, and should be vacated and set aside. The plaintiffs in California ...
Dive Brief: U.S. businesses need to be prepared to navigate a “fluctuating and unstable regulatory landscape” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order seeking to block certain state artificial intelligence laws, according to a legal analysis. Critics ...