Union Pacific conductor who recovered from stroke still posed ‘direct threat’ to safety, court rules
Dive Brief: Union Pacific Railroad Co. did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when it restricted a conductor from driving a train after he recovered from a stroke because the job was “safety sensitive,” and it properly determined that ...
Dive Brief: The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index grew in July, suggesting that there may be “continued resilience in the labor market,” Conrad Qi, an economic data scientist associate at The Conference Board, said in a Monday release. The composite ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon propose a rule to eliminate the 60-day grace period that H-1B and similar nonimmigrant visa holders receive if their employment ends before the expiration date of their visas. The rule was submitted ...
Columbia University is facing a civil rights lawsuit from a group of current and former students and employees who allege the Ivy League institution “acted with deliberate indifference” toward the harassment of Palestinians on campus. In a complaint filed Monday, ...
An allegedly racially segregated diversity, equity and inclusion training is at the heart of an U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against Washington University filed Wednesday. The charging party alleged that she and her coworkers at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer ...
Medicaid beneficiaries will start working in droves. Few sick Americans will lose coverage. The government will generate huge savings. This is how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expects new Medicaid work requirements to play out. But those assumptions, outlined ...
Dive Brief: Eighty-three percent of employers said healthcare cost spikes compel them to make tradeoffs with wage and salary increases, and 93% expect to shift costs to workers, according to the results of a survey conducted by the National Alliance ...
Denver, Colorado-based Mile Hi Foods agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discrimination lawsuit alleging that its CEO and other company executives engaged in unfair hiring practices, per a consent decree filed Friday. According ...
Dive Brief: Employees who view their leaders as empathetic are far more likely to experience artificial intelligence as empowering and a driver of opportunity and growth than employees in toxic cultures, who see it as a source of disruption and ...
A U.S. District Judge on Monday approved an agreement between parties stipulating that a “forensic vendor” be brought in to copy and preserve any confidential information belonging to payment business Flexible Finance on the personal devices of payments executive Alex ...