The job market is weaker than previously thought, Friday numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed. Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in July, the agency said, with employers adding just 73,000 jobs. The unemployment rate increased slightly, ...

Dive Brief: Amazon repeatedly violated the National Labor Relations Act when supervisors and loss prevention personnel prohibited off-duty employees from engaging in union-organizing and other protected activity in warehouse parking lots in Chicago, St. Louis and New York state, an administrative ...

Don Brock is a retired senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in food and consumer product manufacturing. Opinions are the author’s own. Manufacturing in the United States isn’t romantic. Despite what glossy ads, political speeches and tech ...

Employers receiving federal funds may not mandate diverse hiring slates or conduct race-based training, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a guidance announced Wednesday. The agency said those and numerous other initiatives are often touted as DEI but actually ...

Dive Brief: Workday Inc. must provide a list of customers who enabled HiredScore artificial intelligence features in their hiring process, even though the company acquired the technology after the original complaint was filed, a judge in the U.S. District Court for ...

When it comes to employee benefits, the keyword in 2025 is likely “cost.” Various studies show how rising healthcare prices affect organizations and workers alike.  More than half of large employers, for example, plan to shift costs to employees, by ...

Dive Brief: Participants in a Colorado workforce reentry program for formerly incarcerated people experienced median quarterly income growth of 123% within six months of enrollment, demonstrating the potential economic benefits of such models, according to an analysis published by the ...

Dive Brief: Generation Z is reevaluating what a “safe” career looks like amid the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools at work, according to a recent survey of 1,000 Gen Z workers by career website Zety. Most respondents, nearly 3 in ...

Dive Brief: An LGBTQ+ advocacy organization sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Acting Chair Andrea Lucas on Tuesday, alleging they unlawfully refused to enforce federal workplace protections for transgender workers.  The complaint, filed by FreeState Justice, a Maryland ...

Here’s a roundup of some of the big moves in the human resources space this month. Vimeo Rose Frawley has joined online video platform Vimeo as its chief people officer, the company announced July 1. Frawley most recently served in ...