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 ...

Most clicked story of the week When payroll is poorly governed, employers can lose millions of dollars to waste and potential fraud each year, according to a report from UKG and KPMG. “Payroll leakage” — problems created by bad processes ...

GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) medications have become one of the most talked-about, and most challenging, topics in employer-sponsored health plans. What began as a treatment for diabetes is now widely used for weight management, driving unprecedented demand from employees. ...

For years, Employer of Record (EOR) has been positioned as a tactical solution, something companies use when they want to enter a new market quickly, without setting up a legal entity. That framing is starting to break. Because global hiring ...

Dive Brief: A former security guard for Weiser Security Services failed to show that under a “cat’s paw” theory of liability, his supervisor manipulated a manager into firing him because he told HR the supervisor allegedly gave female employees preferential ...

Dive Brief: xAI filed a lawsuit Thursday attempting to block enforcement of a Colorado law that would prohibit algorithmic discrimination by entities deploying artificial intelligence systems, alleging that the law violates several components of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the SpaceX ...

Dive Brief: Employers should work to understand Generation Z and millennial workers and redesign roles that capitalize on the strengths of this cohort,  according to April 7 research from artificial intelligence candidate screening platform Cangrade. The report suggested three main ...

Dive Brief: JPMorgan is backing Atlanta’s clean energy infrastructure by investing $600,000 in the Georgia Cleantech Innovation Hub (GACIH) — a partnership between the public, private and academic sectors that seeks to drive clean technology innovation and increase market access. ...