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  Share your perspective in our 2026 Identity of HR survey

  HR Dive would like your insight on the state of the profession and your priorities for the future.

  Compliance

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  Sponsored by Teladoc Health

  3 steps to close the care gaps in your employee health benefits program

  For employers focused on improving outcomes and managing rising costs, closing gaps in care is essential.

  Comp & Benefits

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  BLS jobs report

  ‘Overwhelmingly disappointing’ job losses mar February

  The latest jobs report indicates that the market has essentially had zero net job creation over the past six months, economists said.

  Talent

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  Managers demonstrate below-average empathy, report finds

  People in leadership positions may find that emotional detachment helps them make tough calls, according to new research from Zety and Sigma Assessment Systems.

  Talent

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  This week in 5 numbers: Nearly half of employees say they’re workaholics

  Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including at what age women’s wages stop increasing.

  Talent

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  How wide pay ranges may deter women from applying

  Compared to their male counterparts, women workers seem to be accounting for a lesser ability to negotiate a higher salary, researchers said.

  Comp & Benefits

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  Lilly targets employers in new bid to broaden access to obesity drugs

  A service tailored to people with workplace-based insurance coverage represents a new way for Lilly to bypass insurers and expand use of its popular obesity shot. 

  Comp & Benefits

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  Faced with rising healthcare costs, workers are delaying care, retirement savings

  “Affordability shapes both access to care and longer-term financial security,” an EBRI director said.

  Comp & Benefits

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  HR must reinvent itself to stay relevant, report stresses

  Under a potential model articulated by Mercer, HR shifts from being a service provider to the architect of work itself.

  Talent

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  Greater autonomy may lead to lower levels of burnout

  Employees who endured a chronic workload imbalance and felt they lacked a voice in the workplace were more likely to show signs of exhaustion, according to a University of Phoenix white paper.

  Talent

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  NFL’s Commanders pay $1M to settle DC workplace harassment lawsuit

  The multiyear saga featured public denials of the employees’ claims from executives of the team, which reportedly maintained an understaffed HR department.

  Compliance

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  Fired HR specialist wasn’t entitled to retroactive FMLA, 7th Circuit holds

  The employee allegedly failed to comply with the employer’s call-out policy.

  Compliance

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  Trump’s anti-DEI orders stand for now, but future challenges can’t be ruled out

  The White House is emboldened to act “aggressively,” making it important for employers to audit their DEI programs, attorneys told HR Dive.

  Compliance

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  Why pay-for-performance programs don’t always work

  Pay “sends a powerful message about what the organization values, who it invests in, and how effort translates into opportunity,” a McLean & Co. director said.

  Talent

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  Opinion

  How should HR handle politics in the workplace?

  When an employee’s political expression interferes with business operations, HR must know how to proceed, writes David Urban, senior counsel at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.

  Compliance

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  Why do workaholics work so much? Company culture, Monster says

  A lack of work-life balance and fear of layoffs were also given as reasons why employees overwork in the Monster report.

  Talent

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  10th Circuit: Pest and cleanliness issues — not age bias — caused Chipotle leader’s firing

  A former field leader in New Mexico did not sufficiently present pretextual evidence that age factored into the company’s decision to terminate him, the court said.

  Compliance

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  Leaders say AI skills now are as fundamental as the ability to write

  Yet about half of those surveyed said there are “significant” skills gaps within their company.

  Learning

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  Glassdoor: Women’s earnings tend to stall out at 35

  Even when they never have children or leave the workforce, women still tend to make “significantly less” than men in their 50s, the report noted.

  Talent

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  The good side of workplace gossip? It brings people together, research says

  Subordinates who gossip about their boss together may feel more collaborative that day.

  Talent

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  DOL provides $81M for training of formerly incarcerated individuals

  The agency said the funding is aimed at helping people gain experience and secure employment in skilled trades and high-demand industries like manufacturing.

  Learning

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  Complying with customers’ race-based preferences violates Title VII, EEOC lawsuit warns

  A Black certified nursing assistant for a Michigan home care company alleged she was not assigned certain patients because they “don’t care for Black people,” according to a complaint filed by the agency. 

  Compliance

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  Haribo gets jury win against employee it claimed stole company Mercedes-Benz

  The dispute occurred after the plaintiff alleged race- and sex-based discrimination and asked for a “mutual separation” from the company.

  Compliance

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  CEOs see AI as the biggest business risk, exceeding geopolitical turmoil

  CEOs and CFOs, confronting the rapid spread of AI, face the risk of underperforming by investing either too little or too much in the far-reaching technology.

  HR Management

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  A flurry of federal compliance activity

  In the past week alone, big news dropped from the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

  Compliance

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  AI skills surpass IT, engineering as the most difficult to find, report says

  “This historic shift highlights a new era in the persistent global talent crisis,” ManpowerGroup said.

  Talent

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