Dive Brief: Professions that will receive tax deductions on tipped wages include workers within the food and beverage service, entertainment and events, hospitality and guest services, home and personal services, personal appearance and wellness, recreation and instruction, and transportation and ...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration said it will focus its efforts on criminal cases “to address the most significant harm” to the employee benefits system, according to a field assistance bulletin issued Tuesday. The agency, which ...
As companies finish their annual compensation talks and send out emails cementing pay for the next year, Payscale CFO Philip Watson wants CFOs to think about ways they can keep the conversation going. Watson, who joined the Boston-based compensation software ...
Dive Brief: A federal judge sided with Western & Southern Financial Group in a retirement benefits discrimination lawsuit on Monday, holding that the insurer did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it fired an employee days before ...
Companies are spending enormous amounts of time, energy and money to train their workers to be ready for artificial intelligence tools, but these efforts are often falling short — or failing outright, recent reports indicated. In its 2026 AI Readiness ...
Dive Brief: A lack of feedback from employers has led many job seekers to use a “spray and pray” application process, with 48% saying they frequently or regularly apply to many roles quickly, instead of focusing their efforts, according to ...
UPDATE: April 14, 2026: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on Friday it settled with a Missouri subsidiary of Republic Services for $200,000. The agreement brings an end to a lawsuit that alleged the business refused to hire a ...
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 ...