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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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  A benefit worth adopting

  By offering adoption benefits, companies are making a big difference for present and future employees.

  Comp & Benefits

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  Office space must support learning and well-being to attract workers, design firm says

  Tension around RTO may have eased in recent months, but employers still need to ensure physical spaces are responsive to employees’ needs, according to Gensler.

  Talent

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  Week in review: Workday lawsuit survives another day

  We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from mandatory artificial intelligence usage to “corporate BS.”

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  Lush agrees to settle gender identity bias lawsuit dropped by EEOC

  The outcome demonstrates how similar cases may continue to live on in spite of the agency’s ideological shift.

  Compliance

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  ‘Monitoring’ during meal breaks did not need compensation, 6th Circuit says

  A security guard’s lawsuit was properly dismissed because it gave no indication of how often, if at all, monitoring the radio and responding to calls interrupted his breaks.

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  Most companies have ‘no formal approach’ to change communication, survey says

  “If every message carries a sense of urgency, employees begin to tune out rather than listen closer,” a Gallagher exec said.

  Talent

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  Anthropic: AI’s influence over the labor market is only beginning to be felt

  The Claude developer found that hiring seems to have slowed for younger workers in certain occupations.

  Talent

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  AI trailed DEI, immigration in 2025 compliance impact, employers say

  The combination of regulatory and economic uncertainty prompted more than one-third of employers in a Littler survey to reduce headcount within the past year.

  Compliance

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  This week in 5 numbers: Employees don’t see AI as a co-worker

  Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including the amount of a recent Honda settlement tied to the Kronos outage.

  Talent

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  ‘Why was my raise only 3%?’ and other pay questions managers must be able to answer

  Managers often fear saying the wrong thing, but training and documentation can help, one expert said.

  Comp & Benefits

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  Instant pay can boost low-income workers’ savings habits, report finds

  Despite consumer advocates’ concerns around earned wage access fees, researchers found modest, consistent usage can help with financial planning.

  Comp & Benefits

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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.

  Talent

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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.

  Talent

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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.

  Updated March 12, 2026

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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.

  Compliance

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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.

  Compliance

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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.

  Compliance

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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.

  Talent

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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.

  Talent

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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.

  Compliance

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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.”

  Compliance

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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.

  Talent

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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.”

  Talent

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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.

  Talent

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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.

  Compliance

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