Dive Brief: The Illinois legislature earlier this week approved a bill that bans disparate impact discrimination, pushing back against an executive order from the president rejecting the liability theory. The bill targets policies and practices that may seem neutral, but ...

By: Kathryn Moody • Published Jan. 13, 2026 The end of 2025 painted a dour picture of the job market, especially entry-level roles. Entry-level jobs are disappearing, says one survey. Companies plan to replace those positions with artificial intelligence tool ...

Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence adoption is accelerating rapidly in the healthcare sector, but clinicians are concerned that relying too heavily on the technology could lead them to lose critical thinking and decision-making skills, according to a survey published Tuesday by ...

Dive Brief: A study of 4 million job applications screened by a hiring algorithm found evidence of “clear racial disparities” in applicant outcomes, with 26% of applications submitted by Black applicants and 15% of those submitted by Asian applicants being ...

Technology and artificial intelligence-driven change dominated HR Dive’s Identity of HR survey this year.  HR leaders are faced with finding ways to implement new technology, upskill workers on those tools and hire others with the skills they can’t develop in ...

Dive Brief: Chicago-based Admiral Theatre will pay $200,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the venue discriminated against adult dancers on the basis of race and sex, according to court documents filed Thursday. According to EEOC’s September ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 decision reducing evidentiary burdens for majority-group plaintiffs alleging job discrimination did not invalidate requirements that such plaintiffs show they were treated less favorably than a similarly situated comparator, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

To face the changing future of work, employers may need to redouble their efforts to address skills gaps, according to a May 28 report from CompTIA, an IT training and certification vendor. More than 1,000 HR, learning and development, and ...

Professional certifications for human resources professionals have long been the cornerstone of skills assessment in the field. Maybe these traditional credentials serve as a supplement to a degree in HR or industrial and organizational psychology. Maybe they solidify a career ...

Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence might be creating a “connection deficit” at work, with 33% of employees saying they “rarely or never” talk to co-workers each week apart from basic task-related conversations, according to recent research from HR enterprise platform Workday. ...