Dive Brief: A lab operator for the U.S. Department of Energy should prevail in a Christian employee resource group’s lawsuit alleging it discriminated against the ERG when it revoked sponsorship over a policy disagreement, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Dive Brief: The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, illegally refused a security guard’s religious request to be exempted from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday (EEOC v. Mayo Clinic). The ...
The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas, acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to a second term at the agency Thursday in a party-line vote. Lucas’ new term expires July 1, 2030. “I am honored to be confirmed ...
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 ...