For years, employee development has followed a familiar pattern: HR designs structured programs, employees complete assigned learning and managers reinforce it during scheduled moments like performance reviews. That model isn’t broken. But it is increasingly out of sync with how ...
Dive Brief: Operators of an Oklahoma medical clinic agreed Thursday to settle claims brought by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the clinic failed to accommodate a medical assistant with a high-risk pregnancy, forced her to take unpaid leave ...
Dive Brief: Cigna did not discriminate against a patient by refusing to cover her weight-loss medications because she did not plausibly allege that her obesity was a disability, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Thursday (Whittemore v. Cigna ...
Dive Brief: “Job hugging,” the workplace trend where employees cling to their job, isn’t going away, but 56% of employees surveyed said they are staying out of necessity rather than genuine commitment, according to a MetLife report released Feb. 18. Financial ...
Dive Brief: Democratic senators and representatives have reintroduced a bill (S.B. 3865 and H.R. 7583) to address harassment and sexual orientation- or gender identity-based discrimination in the workplace, according to a press release from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of ...
Most clicked story of the week The employment rate of Black women fell by 1.4 percentage points to 55.7% in 2025, marking one of the sharpest one-year declines in the last 25 years, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a ...
HR compliance has always required attention to detail. What has changed is the scale and interconnectedness of the work. Compliance obligations now span jurisdictions, people types, internal departments, HR systems and every stage of the worker lifecycle. Hiring, onboarding, pay, ...
Amazon must face a former applicant’s charge that he was not properly notified of his rights under Massachusetts law concerning lie detector tests when he was required to take a “workstyle assessment” that included choosing among a variety of workstyle ...
Dive Brief: A former Google software engineer alleged that the company fired her after she took leave for two separate pregnancies, in violation of Washington state and federal laws, according to Feb. 18 court documents. The plaintiff in Yao v. ...
Dive Brief: Attitudes about “workslop” — meaning low-quality artificial intelligence-generated output — are changing, with 21% of employees reporting that it is somewhat acceptable and overlooked if deadlines are met, and 9% reporting that it is completely acceptable, with speed ...