“In my day, you got one day for an aunt or an uncle or a cousin or a grandmother, and you got three days for a...
Employers with under $1 million in premium paid their brokers roughly $120 million over three years, just within the slice of the market these filings capture....
Where cost-sharing was the barrier, dental care had the highest avoidance rate among financially strained respondents at 52%. Vision care and doctor visits followed at 37%,...
She sued for race discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment. In her account, several white managers made a run of racist remarks about Black residents...
In June 2021, the company’s plumbers voted to unionize. Six months later, the union filed charges with the labor board, accusing the company of a run...
According to the filing, the technician spent almost a quarter-century sterilizing surgical instruments, with steady performance reviews and no disciplinary record. Her job also meant loading...
That changed in February 2024, the complaint says, when she had a mental health crisis and her doctor told her to take leave straight away. She...
The numbers back that up. Accident coverage jumped from 30 percent of employers offering it in 2024 to 41 percent in 2025, according to Alera’s benchmarking...
What the awareness gap actually costs Mental health conditions are among the leading drivers of absenteeism, presenteeism, and disability claims in the US workforce. An employee...
When employers are asked what drives engagement, manager behavior ranks at the top. Forty-five percent of employers focused on improving engagement work on clear performance goals,...
Paid leave cost full-time private-sector employers $4.40 per hour in June, or 8.1 percent of total compensation. Insurance, primarily health coverage, ran separately. Together, these discretionary...
Gartner identified four shifts that will influence how organisations navigate the evolving human-AI workforce landscape. The first shift involves expanding human capability through the human-AI relationship,...
It is aimed at making the broadcaster more efficient by reducing management layers, removing duplication, and simplifying decision-making, according to its announcement. “These decisions have not...
Roughly a third of chief executives report they intend to use AI to cut headcount, a strategy he was sceptical of: “You can’t cut your way...
Industry-wide calls to slow down Coxon’s departure isn’t isolated. Mrinank Sharma, Anthropic’s safeguards research lead, resigned in February 2026 with a letter saying, “the world is...
From here, the story will feel familiar to anyone who runs an accommodation desk. The complaint says he first tried to return to work with accommodations...
Most of the case turns on what happened after a longer absence. His unit deployed to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in December 2023 for a year,...
Apple faced a different kind of pressure, this one coming directly from the White House. After Apple’s shareholders voted down an anti-DEI resolution in early 2025,...
The dispute the complaint describes will read as familiar to anyone who owns discipline decisions. In August 2024, the filing says, his supervisor proposed a lighter...
