Dive Brief: Average salary budgets for U.S. companies will likely remain stable in 2027, increasing by 3.4% — slightly lower than the actual 3.5% increase in 2026, according to a new report from London-based advisory and broking firm WTW. Companies ...
Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions and references to sexual harassment allegations. For more information, see our editorial standards. Dive Brief: A former employee at a major nuclear construction project filed a lawsuit in federal court in June against her ...
Dive Brief: Employers need not pay for an employee’s ordinary, midday travel between home and work, the U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday. The agency reached that conclusion in one of two newly issued opinion letters addressing compensable working time. ...
Dive Brief: The Department of Labor’s employee benefits arm proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow insurers to share mandatory group health plan disclosures with their beneficiaries electronically. Many of the communications, like summary plan descriptions, claims denials or notices that ...
Dive Brief: After being laid off, 57% of U.S. workers said they’ve felt pressured to accept a lower salary to get back to work, according to Glassdoor poll results released Tuesday. Women, the results show, feel greater pressure, with 63% ...
Dive Brief: The ability to direct advanced artificial intelligence systems is becoming increasingly important for early-career workers, according to a joint field study from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and accounting firm KPMG. ...
Major restaurant CEOs make hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of times more than their hourly workers, many of whom are making close to poverty wages, public filings show. Last year Restaurant Dive analyzed the Dodd-Frank disclosures of seven major QSRs to ...
Dive Brief: The federal government’s main HR office lost more than 1,000 workers, or 35% of its staff, in just over a year, according to a new analysis by the watchdog Government Accountability Office. The reduction aligns with the end ...
Dive Brief: The widening of gender pay gaps may be in part due to the tendency of male employees to use external job opportunities to negotiate higher pay, a tactic in which comparatively fewer female employees engage, according to a ...
Dive Brief: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers say they’re staying in a job they dislike because they’re worried about losing their health insurance, according to a report published this week. The number of workers reporting “job lock” is up ...