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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.

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  US companies say they plan to accelerate global hiring despite hurdles

  As global expansion and AI adoption speed up, engagement has faltered, highlighting the challenges in the market, according to an Atlas HXM report.

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  Workers who are receptive to ‘corporate BS’ may struggle with analytic thinking

  “Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ empty rhetoric in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency,” a Cornell researcher said.

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  EEOC agrees to pay $250K to settle staffer’s bias lawsuit against agency

  The case drew attention due to the rarity of lawsuits alleging workplace discrimination against the commission, which enforces employment antidiscrimination laws.

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  Bravo, Warner Bros. can’t compel arbitration in former Real Housewives cast member lawsuit, judge orders

  The defendants filed two motions to dismiss the claims and didn’t bring up arbitration for more than a year after the lawsuit was filed, the federal judge said.

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  EEOC: Restaurant fired worker who had seizure to allow her to ‘focus on’ her health

  The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against employees who are regarded as having a disability by their employers.

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  If the Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act passes, what does that mean for Florida employers?

  Florida’s HB 641, which targets gender identity in the workplace, puts employers between a rock and a hard place, attorneys suggest.

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  Cybersecurity has a gender gap perception problem, ISC2 says

  Women reported barriers to advancement as well as wage gaps and other challenges that men said they were “unaware of,” according to new research.

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  Layoffs, cost-cutting shatter IT worker confidence

  Positive sentiment among technology workers suffered the biggest year-over-year drop across all industries in a Glassdoor report published Tuesday.

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  6th Circuit shoots down NLRB’s Cemex standard

  The appeals court sided with Brown-Forman Corp., Jack Daniels’ parent company, in nixing the landmark 2023 standard.

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  3rd Circuit revives White police officer’s case, applying recent SCOTUS ‘reverse bias’ ruling

  Relying on Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the appeals court found a “background circumstances” rule used by New Jersey “no longer has a permissible role to play.”

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  5 stories on the skills evolution

  Companies say they want artificial intelligence skills, but their training efforts aren’t keeping pace, reports show.

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  Snelling: Decades of recruiting show today’s labor market isn’t ‘unprecedented’

  The company’s survey findings not only highlighted how hiring priorities are shifting in 2026 but also “what decades of workforce cycles reveal about what truly endures.”

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  CEOs think AI use is mandatory — but employees don’t agree, survey says

  Several disconnects exist between C-suite executives and employees on artificial intelligence tool use.

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  Workday takes partial loss as judge refuses to dismiss claims in AI bias lawsuit

  The court rejected the company’s position that federal anti-age discrimination law does not cover job applicants.

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  Unprofessional conduct, not FMLA retaliation, led to doctor’s suspension, 6th Circuit says

  While leaders had allegedly complained about FMLA use at Meharry Medical College, the doctor could not connect the disciplinary action to this apparent frustration.

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  Honda agrees to $2.3M settlement in lawsuits tied to Kronos outage

  The timekeeping software went offline following a ransomware attack, allegedly leading to wage and hour violations by numerous employers.

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  The key to companywide AI adoption? Empowering managers, Gartner says.

  HR needs to lean more on managers to drive tool use, rather than rely on employees to experiment on their own, according to a report.

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  Opinion

  Entry-level jobs should be entry level

  False advertising in job posts is losing employers smart and motivated applicants, a director of undergraduate career services writes.

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  Week in review: Why pay for performance matters

  We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from workaholism to workplace gossip.

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  Duke misconduct probe’s timing may show retaliation, judge rules

  Suspiciously close proximity between protected activity and an adverse employment action can support such a claim, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said.

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  Florida restaurant settles EEOC sexual harassment allegations

  Despite witnessing the harassment, his partners failed to stop it and fired a server because she complained, the lawsuit alleged.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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