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HR in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the business of HR: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Employment law and rulings, the labor market and layoffs, benefits and comp, and the workplace and HR-tech shifts changing how companies hire, pay and manage people. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For CHROs, people and talent leaders, and the teams building the function. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.

  1. hace 4 h

    Gartner Says a Third of AI Job Cuts Will Be Reversed

    Gartner: over-aggressive AI cuts now forcing costly rehires. A new Gartner report says employers that trimmed headcount too deeply for AI are paying to rehire, a caution for automation-based workforce plans. (HRD Canada, Computerworld) California bill would ban emotion-reading AI at work. California lawmakers passed a bill barring employers from using AI to track employee emotions or neural data, a compliance check other states may replicate. (HR Executive) EEOC seeks court help in San Francisco DEI probe. The EEOC asked a judge to assist its investigation of San Francisco's mandatory DEI seminars, a test of workplace trainings against Title VII. (HR Dive) UK right-to-work checks extend to contractors from October. From October, UK right-to-work checks will cover agency workers, contractors and other non-employees, leaving HR weeks to widen compliance. (Personnel Today) Also moving today: Women account for 98% of August job gains as male employment falls: US Bureau of Labor Statistics (The Post Millennial, The Daily Wire) Red Rock Casino ordered to bargain with Culinary Union as stay request fails (yogonet.com) Channel 4 to cut 340 jobs in restructuring drive (Personnel Today) Williams-Sonoma to spread tariff refunds to vendors, employees (HR Dive) Job-switchers are earning more in Canada, U.S.: report (HRD Canada) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  2. hace 1 día

    Amazon Sued Over Pregnancy Accommodations

    Four women sue Amazon over pregnancy accommodations. A lawsuit filed yesterday alleges Amazon denied pregnant warehouse workers bathroom breaks and seated work, the same accommodation requests HR teams field daily. (Ars Technica, HRD Canada) DOL says 14-minute walk to break area may not trigger FLSA violation. The Labor Department addressed walking time and other wage-and-hour edge cases in three opinion letters released Tuesday, per HR Dive. (HR Dive) U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, Forbes reports. Employment returned to growth after an unexpected stretch of weakness, with gains and losses concentrated in specific industries. (Forbes) Feds warn schedule changes may be USERRA retaliation. Federal officials caution that altering schedules or transferring returning service members can qualify as retaliation under recently expanded military-leave law. (HR Dive) Also moving today: EEOC sues Family Dollar over firing of pregnant North Carolina worker (WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source, HR Dive) IBM ordered to pay nearly $900,000 for wrongful dismissal, litigation conduct (HRD Canada) Fact or fiction? Deepfakes complicate harassment investigations (HR Dive) Benefits debt: The liability employers create before open enrollment (HR Executive) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  3. hace 2 días

    EEOC subpoenas a city's DEI training records

    EEOC asks court to compel San Francisco DEI records. The EEOC is seeking a court order for the city's diversity-training documents, putting DEI paperwork inside the discovery perimeter of a bias investigation. (news.bloomberglaw.com) Volkswagen restructuring plan reaches 100,000 job cuts by 2030. HR Executive reports Volkswagen has agreed to reductions that would total 100,000 positions by the end of the decade, with four plants' futures unresolved. (HR Executive) About 450 Cigna employees petition over dropped GLP-1 coverage. Employees of the insurer are asking it to restore coverage for weight-loss drugs it cut, showing benefits changes surfacing as internal-relations events. (HR Executive) Uber drivers file collective action over algorithmic decisions. A group of drivers alleges the company used algorithmic decision-making about workers, a case people-ops teams running automated tools will want to track. (Personnel Today) Also moving today: Red Rock must bargain with Culinary union after Supreme Court justice denies stay (Las Vegas Review-Journal) Permanent jobs rose in August for first time in almost two years (Personnel Today) UK tribunal sides with Next in landmark equal pay ruling (HRD Canada) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  4. hace 3 días

    NLRB's Top Lawyer Names Her Targets

    NLRB counsel targets Biden-era labor rulings. The NLRB's new general counsel has named more than a dozen Biden-era Board decisions she intends to challenge, putting employer-side precedent back in play. (Mondaq Business Briefing) Tribunal backs Next in equal pay appeal. The Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that market forces can be a legitimate aim, a finding Personnel Today reports as a landmark win for Next in its long-running equal pay case. (Personnel Today) Workday AI hiring suit raises HR oversight questions. Personnel Today reports the Mobley v Workday lawsuit is being read as a test of where liability sits when a vendor's AI screens job candidates. (Personnel Today) August job cuts rose month over month. Announced August job cuts were up sharply from July but below the same month last year, giving HR a mixed read on employer confidence. (HR Executive) Also moving today: These industries will lead hiring in the next decade, with just one sector accounting for more than a third of all new jobs (Yahoo! Finance, Fortune) B&Q, Five Guys and NHS trusts named for NMW underpayments (Personnel Today) Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Overturns NLRB In Favor Of A More Balanced Uniform Policy (Mondaq Business Briefing) Thousands of job cuts expected at Jaguar Land Rover (Personnel Today, HRD Canada) Amtrak’s ‘relaxed’ COVID-era FMLA policy didn’t cover plaintiff’s unexplained absences, judge rules (HR Dive) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  5. hace 4 días

    Benefits Costs Spike, Payrolls Beat, VW Cuts 50,000

    Marsh reports steepest health benefits cost rise since 2003. Marsh says next year's health benefits costs will climb at the fastest rate in 24 years, setting a harder baseline for renewal pricing. (HR Executive) August hiring beats expectations as economists still call market fragile. August job numbers came in above forecasts, but an economist quoted describes the labor market as fragile, a mixed signal for fall headcount and budget planning. (HR Dive, FXStreet, FXStreet) Volkswagen to cut 50,000 jobs, names new HR head. HRD Canada reports Volkswagen will eliminate 50,000 roles in a restructuring announced alongside a leadership change in HR. (HRD Canada) FMLA claim survives after employer can't explain differing firings. A court let a protected-leave claim proceed because the employer could not explain why one manager was fired and another kept, a comparator question with wide reach. (HR Dive) Also moving today: Canada loses 42,000 jobs as wage growth hits lowest level since 2017 (HRD Canada) Canadian employers hold salary budgets at 3.1% for 2027 (HRD Canada) Federal Contractor Loses Sixth Circuit Appeal of NLRB Ruling (news.bloomberglaw.com) Race bias claims tied to drug test can go to jury, 11th Circuit says (HR Dive) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  6. 4 sep

    Uber's Third Restructuring, and a Court Trims the NLRB

    Uber cuts 3,300 jobs, tightens office rules. HR Executive reports Uber's third 2026 restructuring cuts 10% of staff while reinforcing in-office attendance, a pairing HR leaders may see cited in their own RTO debates. (HR Executive) Second Circuit declines to enforce Starbucks NLRB order. A federal appeals court refused to enforce a Board order on Starbucks dress-code rules, narrowing how far current NLRB insignia rulings bind employer uniform policies. (Court House News Service, HRD Canada, HRD Asia) Employers project moderate raises for fourth straight year. HR Dive reports merit budgets holding flat again, while Marsh says pay decisions increasingly happen outside the annual cycle. (HR Dive) DOL flags conflict in tobacco wellness program rules. HR Executive reports the Labor Department will hold off on penalties for good-faith compliance, leaving benefits teams to weigh tobacco-surcharge program designs against conflicting requirements. (HR Executive) Also moving today: Paychex: Small-business job growth holds steady in August - Rochester Business Journal (Rochester Business Journal) Data center employers face acute shortage of skilled workers, report finds (HR Dive) Worker fired shortly after turning 60 sues for age bias (HR Dive) CHROs are increasingly external hires at large companies, index shows (HR Executive) EY earmarks $100M in rewards for ‘future-focused’ employees (HR Dive, HRD Canada) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  7. 3 sep

    ADP Misses, Uber Cuts 3,300

    ADP: private payrolls added 38,000 jobs in August. August private hiring came in below the 48,000 economists expected, giving talent teams an early read on where hiring plans are loosening. (Finance & Commerce, AzerNews, FXStreet) NLRB asks full DC Circuit to rehear authority ruling. The Board is seeking en banc review of a panel decision narrowing its rulemaking power, leaving employers uncertain which union-management rules still bind them. (news.bloomberglaw.com) Uber cutting 3,300 roles, targeting middle management. The ride-hailing company says the 10% reduction is aimed at flattening management layers, putting span-of-control ratios back on the HR agenda. (HRD Canada) AI governance dominated HR association conference, attendee says. An attendee account describes governance concerns trailing AI deployment, pointing to a sequencing problem for HR policy and vendor review. (HRD Canada) Also moving today: 4th Circuit backs worker who cited the Bible in abstaining from COVID vaccine policy (HR Dive) EEOC wants to end demographic reporting. Smart companies won’t stop measuring. (HR Dive) American Airlines to Pay $200K for Discrimination Against Worker With Blindness (Insurance Journal, Simple Flying) Almost half the time spent on AI is on fixing its output, BambooHR says (HR Dive) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

  8. 2 sep

    States Push Back On EEO-1 Rescission

    States challenge EEOC move to end demographic reporting. Eight state and local civil rights agencies are pushing back on ending EEO-1 collection, the dataset many employers use as their pay- and representation-audit baseline. (StateScoop, The Portland Tribune) Amazon Teamsters call strike at largest US warehouse. The union says workers at Amazon's DJT6 site in Riverside will walk off in an unfair-labor-practice strike, testing ULP tactics at scale. (International Brotherhood of Teamsters) JOLTS shows 188,000 drop in pro-services hires. BLS data reported a July decline in professional-services hiring, setting up Friday's payrolls and the Fed's September 16 vote as the next reads. (Tech Times) Gartner: employees rank pay above wellness benefits. Employees told Gartner that pay growth, long-term incentives and more frequent spot bonuses matter most, pointing to a possible benefits rebalance at renewal. (HR Dive) Also moving today: Say your prayers, but not in Quebec workplaces (HRD Canada) Ford to Pay $2.3 Million to Settle Racial Harassment EEOC Claim (news.bloomberglaw.com) Cisco Allowed Muslim Worker Harassment Over Gaza War, EEOC Finds (news.bloomberglaw.com, Al Jazeera Online) CHRO turnover goes above average in H1 2026 (HRD Canada) Get HR in Five in your inbox every weekday: https://hrinfive.com

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HR in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the business of HR: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Employment law and rulings, the labor market and layoffs, benefits and comp, and the workplace and HR-tech shifts changing how companies hire, pay and manage people. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For CHROs, people and talent leaders, and the teams building the function. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.

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