Dive Brief: Hospital gift shop chain Lori’s Gifts will pay $600,000 to resolve claims that it refused to hire job candidates with disabilities and screened them using criteria that did not actually correspond to essential job functions, the U.S. Equal ...
Dive Brief: A lack of a salary band in a job post is a top deal breaker for prospective employees, according to a Monster report released Monday. Approximately 6 in 10 workers said they wouldn’t apply to a job that ...
Dive Brief: Employee productivity and engagement is dragged down by widespread financial stress, but organizations can help reduce worker anxiety by providing judgment-free financial education and guidance on financial wellness, according to new research from PwC. The company’s 2026 Employee ...
Dive Brief: A former employee has alleged that MrBeastYouTube, LLC and GameChanger 24/7, LLC — collectively referred to as MrBeast — harassed her due to her gender and fired her three weeks after she returned from maternity leave. The lawsuit, filed ...
Dive Brief: Nearly three-quarters of U.S. finance leaders rank healthcare among their companies’ five biggest operating expense concerns, consulting firm Mercer found in a recent survey. The research comes as the rapid rise of GLP-1 weight-loss medications — like Wegovy ...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division on Wednesday proposed a new joint employer rule that would return, in part, to a rule issued in 2020 by the first Trump administration and set “more stringent criteria for when ...
Dive Brief: Organizations and employees are looking for more ways to build their artificial intelligence skills sets and demonstrate the value of those skills in the workplace, according to new research from AI skills management platform Skillsoft. The company’s platform ...
Over the next few years, Walmart is aiming to equip each of its 2.1 million employees — from its tech team to its signature in-store greeters — with some level of AI skills, EVP and Chief People Officer Donna Morris ...
Soft skills are still largely topping employers’ list of valued skills in workers new to their careers — but a solid grasp of artificial intelligence tools is also increasingly expected, according to a Robert Half report released April 16. “Foundational ...
Several large companies bought into return-to-office, or RTO, in 2025, a trend that Glassdoor researchers said signaled a labor market shift in favor of employers. But where many companies see the office’s comeback as necessary, others, like Mindr, see it ...