Dive Brief: A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation found Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Hillcrest Medical Center violated the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, the agency announced in a Monday news release. According to DOL, Hillcrest ...
Dive Brief: The increasing cost of medical care is driving more workers to forgo needed care or stop taking medications, ADP found in a recently released employee benefits survey. Twenty-six percent of respondents said they’d skipped needed medical care for ...
Dive Brief: Nearly one-third of customer service agents say they are likely to quit their current role within the next six months, according to a Verint survey released Tuesday. Verint, a customer service automation company, surveyed 1,000 agents at organizations with ...
Public recognition and mentorship programs are two ways employers create a culture of learning, but close to 3 in 4 organizations said they lack the staff and time to support such a culture, according to an April 7 report from ...
Dive Brief: Human resources skills were the third-most sought after job skill set, listed as a requirement in 27.3% of all U.S. job postings at the end of 2025, according to a new report from Indeed Hiring Lab. The report ...
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 ...