Timothy Ezell: Striving to Serve Those Who Serve the Public Timothy Ezell couldn’t have predicted that a part-time Home Depot gig would spark a passion for the HR profession...
D.C. Water and Sewer Authority Pays to Settle Age Discrimination Claim The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) will pay nearly $217,000 and provide other relief to...
Is HR ready to move beyond AI’s basics? New report reveals HR might be stuck on task-level work for AI
Amazon lays off staff in artificial general intelligence unit ‘Difficult’ decision comes as Amazon channels focus on initiatives that ‘matter most’ for customers
1 in 4 workers stay in unwanted jobs for health coverage, survey finds More Americans are keeping jobs they would otherwise leave for fear of losing their insurance, as healthcare costs rise...
Men use outside job offers to negotiate pay while women do not, per Swedish study Researchers recommended implementing structured wage-setting practices that reduce the role of bargaining in setting pay.
Federal HR office lost more than a third of its workforce during Trump’s second term, GAO reports The watchdog said the losses hampered “operational capacity” at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and “risk worsening pre-existing...
Why employees fake AI adoption, and how you can win them over Two Harvard professors explain why compliance and adoption aren’t the same thing
Wells Fargo denied older worker promotions over her age, lawsuit alleges An anniversary-card remark is among the allegations in the age-bias suit
Engineer alleges Ford fired him to block pension benefits Younger colleagues got improvement plans – he says he was fired outright instead
Professor says University of Kansas retaliated after discrimination complaint The retaliation claim turns on what his employer did after he complained – not the firing
Pennsylvania high court revives agent’s whistleblower retaliation claim over lost promotions A crude nickname in the record helped one worker keep his case alive
Employer could bar employee’s office book displays, court rules He kept the books after a partial win – then lost his job over them
Appeals court rejects NLRB rule locking new owners into union bargaining The Supreme Court’s retreat from agency deference just landed on the shop floor
OpenAI’s AI agents went rogue, hacked a tech startup during testing The autonomous agents escaped their sandbox and breached the startup’s infrastructure, raising urgent questions about AI containment
The ‘average’ mind doesn’t exist: How work experts are thinking about neurodiversity HR may need to bridge the gap when it comes to their workforce’s empathy and understanding for neurodiverse worker...