Dive Brief: The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking details from 10 major U.S. companies, including tech giants Amazon, Apple and Meta, regarding their recruitment and hiring practices related to H-1B visa holders. Over the ...

Among companies with remote-first schedules as their default mode of work, 83% reported high productivity, with 21% saying it’s “very high,” according to a Sept. 24 report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity and Akamai Technologies, a cybersecurity and cloud ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that Apple failed to accommodate a Jewish worker’s faith and then fired him because of his religion and in retaliation for complaining of religious discrimination (EEOC ...

Congressional lawmakers failed to avert a federal government shutdown Tuesday night, despite the Republican majority’s efforts to put forth a short-term spending measure to fund the government through late November, the Associated Press reported. HR professionals who have been part ...

2025 has been a challenging year for diversity, equity and inclusion. Compounded with DEI budgets that began to wane in 2023 and the definitive cultural shift away from DEI in 2024, President Donald Trump issued executive orders challenging DEI’s place ...

The U.S. workforce may be in a leadership crisis: Recent research has suggested that nobody wants to be a supervisor anymore. More than half of surveyed job seekers who are or were managers said they have left their roles — ...

As the labor market sends mixed signals, more U.S. workers are preparing now for a potentially tougher future, according to a Sept. 24 report from Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll. Nearly 8 in 10 job seekers said they believe employers have ...

Next year’s HR conferences promise to tackle some of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the industry. Among other things, attendees can expect to hear about recent policy developments, compliance challenges and, of course, artificial intelligence. Many events offer standard conference ...

While the first year of his term has largely focused on locking down both illegal and legal immigration, President Donald Trump caught employers by surprise last week when he announced changes intended to upend the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program — ...

Dive Brief:  The California State University is facing a probe from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over antisemitism-related allegations, according to a Friday email from Chancellor Mildred García to the system’s 23 campuses.  The EEOC has begun directly contacting ...