Dive Brief: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., re-introduced the Restoring Overtime Pay Act this week, aiming to “expand or strengthen overtime protections” for workers, per a May 18 press release. Sanders and Takano’s proposal would increase the ...
Dive Brief: Eight in 10 companies in the U.S. say their organization is committed to diversity, fairness and inclusion, despite daunting legal and cultural constraints, a May 12 report from global nonprofit Catalyst, Inc., and New York University School of ...
Rising costs — at the pump, in insurance premiums and at the grocery store — and an unstable job market are leaving workers frazzled and insecure, recent studies show. Some workers are treating overemployment — having more than one full-time ...
Dive Brief: Burnout rates are up 65% year-over-year, while employee confidence reached a new record low last month, according to recent research from Glassdoor. Workers mentioned burnout 2.5 times more in Glassdoor reviews in the first quarter of 2026 than ...
A Pennsylvania home healthcare company has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve claims that the company intentionally misclassified employees as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime, according to court documents filed Monday by the U.S. Department of Labor. ...
Dive Brief: Women’s representation on Russell 3000 company boards is slipping, a recent analysis by Equilar and 50/50 Women on Boards showed. In Q1 2026, women held 29.9% of Russell 3000 board spots. Last year, their share was above 30% ...
Recruit Holdings — the parent company of Indeed and Glassdoor — saw its stock price jump to new heights after its Q4 and Fiscal Year 2025 earnings call pointed to the ways the company is adapting to artificial intelligence across ...
Can employees who work at schools or colleges that receive federal funding personally sue their employer for sex discrimination under Title IX? For years — and in most parts of the country — the answer to that has been yes. ...
Dive Brief: A.G. Equipment Co., a compressor packaging manufacturer located in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, will pay $4,250,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges that it violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it fired ...
Workforce leaders talk about the importance of human skills in the face of the AI gold rush, but what does that mean? Andy Nelesen, head of solutions and market insights at behavioral assessment company SHL, told HR Dive to think ...