On Labor Day, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a broad package of opinion letters, guidance, and policy updates across several agencies, framed as an effort to provide greater
National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Crystal Carey has released GC Memorandum 26-04, summarizing positions recently taken on a range of subjects (e.g., severance agreements, captive audience meetings, dress
Beginning in 2027, certain adults enrolled in Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus program will need to satisfy new work-related requirements to obtain or renew coverage. The rules generally apply to childless adults
An employer recently terminated an employee after he allegedly sent a racist social media message to WNBA player Chelsea Gray. After Gray posted a screenshot, the employer confirmed the individual
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging that AI-assisted or algorithmically informed layoff methods disproportionately affected workers who took medical, parental, family, pregnancy-related, or disability-related leave. According to news
The remote work question is increasingly about how to structure flexibility to support both the employee experience and business performance. Some research indicates better job satisfaction and lower quit rates
Conflict resolution facilitator Priya Parker argues in her forthcoming book, The Art of Fighting, that the problem in many organizations is not too much conflict, but too little productive conflict.
Agentic AI is all the buzz these days. A new book on the subject points to two big conclusions, both about the future of work by human beings (not AI).
A recent This American Life segment followed Marie, a certified nursing assistant in a Boston nursing home, as the end of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Haitians became effective. She
It is truly strange, and therefore notable here, when the U.S. Secretary of Labor is at the core of a report like this. Among other things, the investigation found that
