Know What's Happening in Human Resources
Know What's Happening in Human Resources
Chef Initiative Trains Autistic Talent for Fine‑Dining Kitchens
Chefs on the Spectrum, launched by chef Franklin Becker and autistic cook Joseph Valentino, trains and places people on the autism spectrum in fine‑dining kitchens. The program debuted at a $2,500 fundraiser for Autism Speaks, targeting both the restaurant labor shortage and unemployment among autistic adults.
The Trades Union Congress reports that UK workers lost £28.5 billion to unpaid overtime in 2025, affecting roughly 3.5 million employees – about one in eight of the workforce. On average, each affected worker forfeits 6.8 hours weekly, translating to a personal loss of around £8,100 per year. The figure marks a slight decline from 2024’s £31 billion but still signals a massive hidden cost. The newly enacted Employment Rights Act aims to give workers stronger tools to challenge unpaid overtime pressures.
National searches for apprenticeships and vocational training rose 9% in 2025, with the strongest demand in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East and the East Midlands. Early‑career specialist Helen Russell notes a cultural shift as adults increasingly pursue earn‑while‑you‑learn...
New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled that public school districts can face vicarious liability for teachers’ alleged sexual abuse, even when the conduct occurs outside the traditional scope of employment. The decision overturns prior rulings that granted broad immunity under the...
U.S. District Court for D.C. dismissed all four claims filed by Neonu Jewell, former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Development Finance Corporation, after her termination following President Trump's executive order to dismantle federal DEIA programs. The order led...
A former MSC Cruises director alleges the cruise line approved her remote work in late 2024 without any paperwork, then later denied the same arrangement as a disability accommodation, triggering a federal lawsuit. The complaint cites race and disability discrimination,...
In this episode, Tim Van Meegham interviews Marty Baird, CEO of Robinson & Associates and creator of the RAD (Reveal, Ask, Do) method, which transforms traditional lecture‑style training into an engaging, Socratic‑based experience. Marty explains how low retention rates (3‑5%)...
The article highlights how brief, informal managerial advice can become a career‑defining compass for professionals. It showcases three senior HR leaders—Praveen Purohit, Vinod Rai, and Rajeev Singh—who credit simple lessons such as staying in a role to learn deeply, showing...
The International Labour Organisation warns that generative AI will disproportionately affect women’s jobs, citing occupational segregation, under‑representation in STEM, and embedded gender bias as key drivers. Women are exposed to GenAI in 88% of countries, and female‑dominated occupations are almost...
The Supreme Court of India has agreed to review whether foreign employees must contribute to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) under the 1952 scheme after LG Electronics challenged the mandatory contribution rule. The dispute centers on Paragraph 83 of the...
The Ask a Manager column answered four distinct workplace dilemmas: a remote employee appearing to juggle childcare during work hours, whether to provide a retirement cake for a disliked senior colleague, sharing photos of an aerial‑silks hobby, and coping with...
BNP Paribas Real Estate and Strutt & Parker announced 95 UK promotions effective March 1, 2026, spanning senior director to associate levels and highlighting the firms’ integration progress. The promotions cover commercial, residential and rural specialties across major cities, reinforcing a talent‑first strategy....
For context: The @ChicagoBears are a multi-billion-dollar franchise. • Franchise value: $8–9 billion • Annual revenue: $600+ million Meanwhile, typical NFL coaching salaries look like this: • Head coach: $13M /year • Coordinators: $2–4M/year • Position coaches: $750K–$1.4M/year • Strength coaches: $680K–$1.2M/year • Entry-level quality control coaches: $115K–$185K Even...
Queensland’s Industrial Relations Commission ruled that an employer was liable for a psychological injury after it replaced a full‑time executive support officer’s colleague with two untrained casual workers, creating an unreasonable workload. The employee, who resigned in October 2022, claimed...
Restaurant operators face chronic staffing shortages, complex compliance, and safety risks that drain time and profit. A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) offers co‑employment services, handling payroll, benefits, tax administration, and risk management. By leveraging the scale of a PEO, independent...
You can't force a culture of speed. You can only hire for it. – Paid ads 90% automated – Onboarding 100% automated in two days – Influencer outreach went from 20 a month to 1k a day – PMs, designers, and...
A four‑year study of mid‑size Italian firm LARI shows that reframing leadership as a trust‑based, outcome‑oriented practice boosted its hybrid work performance. Researchers found that treating technology as a social infrastructure, rather than merely an operational tool, deepened collaboration. Led...
Global recruitment firm Gi Group is urging employers and policymakers to stop excluding 16‑24‑year‑olds classified as NEET from job opportunities, warning that the “experience trap” perpetuates long‑term disengagement. The latest figures show 957,000 NEETs in the UK in Q4 2025, a...
Your company isn’t losing jobs to AI. It’s losing jobs it never needed. AI is the excuse to do what bad leaders were too afraid to do: restructure orgs built on ego, not strategy. These companies don’t have a talent problem. They have a...
Once workplace practices are controlled for, the remote work premium is greatly reduced again, consistent with the view that what appears to be a remote work premium is largely a reflection of better workplace quality in jobs that also happen...
The study by Minni et al. shows that exposure to foreign managers with progressive gender attitudes reduces the gender pay gap within teams by 4.9 percentage points, an 18% decline, without lowering men’s wages. Using rotation data from a large...
Many talented people over the past few years were declined an offer or even an interview @xAI. My apologies. @BarisAkis and I are going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates.
On average, exposure to a foreign manager with more progressive views on gender reduces the gender pay gap by 4.9% points at no cost to the pay of male employees. Impact is particularly strong in countries with more conservative prevailing...
Meta’s Reality Labs is piloting an ultra‑flat engineering org where a single manager oversees up to 50 engineers, relying on AI agents for status updates, meeting attendance, and one‑on‑one check‑ins. The experiment aligns with Zuckerberg’s “Year of Efficiency,” aiming to...
i invest in people for the long term. small teams that learn fast can now rival companies with hundreds of people. that’s what we’re building at @getjustpaid, daily iteration, daily launches, daily customer feedback. invest in your team. it always pays off.
Decision Fatigue Debt: When Too Many Decisions Take Longer to Recover From @ABPsychologists https://t.co/uXAG98a96Y #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
NBCUniversal and its facilities contractor ABM Industries agreed to rehire more than 100 union janitors they had dismissed earlier this week. The layoffs, affecting night‑shift workers at Universal City Plaza, DreamWorks and the Universal Studios Lot, sparked a planned SEIU‑USWW...
The article advocates a human‑centric organizational model that treats employees as whole people rather than interchangeable resources. It outlines core principles—dignity, autonomy, purpose, psychological safety, equity, wellbeing, clarity, learning, and empathy—and maps them to concrete design levers such as role...
LinkedIn is testing an AI‑powered interview screening tool for Hiring Pro users. The feature lets recruiters invite up to 40 candidates to complete an AI‑generated audio or video interview, with questions and ideal answers tailored to the role. Candidates’ responses...
A new Theraflu‑backed campaign, “The Right to Rest and Recover,” featuring Olympian Allyson Felix, highlights that nearly one‑fifth of American private‑sector workers lack paid sick leave. A Theraflu‑Wakefield Research survey found 80% of caregiver respondents cannot afford a sick day,...
AI‑enabled smart glasses are moving from novelty to workplace tool, offering hands‑free data capture and AI assistance. Their ability to record audio, video, and biometric data silently raises consent, privacy, and security concerns. Employers must navigate NLRA scrutiny of recording...
The International Union of Operating Engineers reached a tentative contract with Kaiser Permanente covering about 600 maintenance workers across Southern California, the Mid‑Atlantic and Colorado. The agreement, involving IUOE Locals 501, 99 and 1, provides a 21.5% wage increase over...
Phenom announced FedRAMP authorization, clearing the path to sell its AI‑driven talent platform to U.S. federal, state and local agencies. The company is positioning its new WorkOps suite and Hypercell operating model to address the $8 billion domestic public‑sector HR market,...
A Stanford study using ADP payroll data finds that workers aged 22‑25 in occupations most exposed to generative AI saw a 16% relative employment decline, while older workers in the same roles remained stable. By contrast, younger workers in healthcare...
On March 6, 2026 Argentina enacted a sweeping Labor Modernization Law that overhauls employment definitions, collective bargaining, and severance rules. The reform narrows the legal definition of employment, excluding freelancers, independent contractors, and platform workers, while granting firms clearer liability...
Inside @google, we have a system for sending small bonuses to peers that helped us out. It's used often, and builds a culture of gratitude. We added an AI tool that scans your chats, emails, whatever and generates a report that...
A poll commissioned by the Australian Services Union shows that 87% of Australian workers back a formal right to work from home, with 60% favoring remote work as the default for any eligible office role. The survey also reveals that...
On March 6, 2026 the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released updated Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) for Rule 701 equity compensation plans. The guidance raises the enhanced‑disclosure threshold to $10 million and clarifies that all employees receiving equity must receive the...
On April 16, 2026, Littler hosted a two‑hour Breakfast Briefing for New York employers at the Hilton Long Island. The session addressed a wave of state‑mandated changes covering pre‑hire credit checks, mandatory Narcan stocking, updated minimum‑wage and overtime rates, new...
if an internal candidate is already identified, it should always be disclosed on the job posting
Teamsters Union Says DOJ Must Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Takeover Unless There Are ‘Enforceable’ Job Protections https://t.co/omvw2m3xrr via @variety
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) released its March 2026 report to Congress, recommending that states disclose hourly wages for home‑ and community‑based service (HCBS) workers. The proposal aims to give states clearer data for setting effective HCBS...
.@xAI Hires Two Senior Leaders From Cursor to Catch Up on Coding - @theinformation https://t.co/DV4gM0G5PB
how HR sleeps after posting a job they already planned to fill internally anyway https://t.co/m81ts7r23O
Fairview Health Services announced the selection of Workday’s cloud suite to replace legacy systems across human resources, finance, and supply chain. The move consolidates three core functions onto a single AI‑powered platform, promising real‑time analytics and automated workflows. Workday will...
Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, secured historic collective bargaining agreements covering all five unions at its Pascagoula yard. The contracts deliver an immediate base wage increase of at least 18% and total wage growth of 35%‑47% through...
On March 9, 2026 the New York Department of Health released updated guidance clarifying wage‑parity compliance deadlines for home‑care providers through 2025 and beyond. The guidance fixes previous uncertainty by setting firm LS300 reporting dates for 2025 (May 31, 2026) and establishing annual LS301 audit...
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie is spearheading a campaign against what she calls “fat cats” in the federal public service and “pigs in gravy” among university vice‑chancellors. She argues that senior bureaucrats and university leaders earn salaries at least twice those...
Lever unveiled a suite of design enhancements aimed at streamlining the recruiting workflow. The updates include a modernized interface with higher contrast and cleaner navigation, a drag‑and‑drop job posting editor, smarter application‑question controls, and a refreshed Automations Hub with search...
Lever announced a suite of product upgrades aimed at streamlining the hiring workflow. The enhancements include AI‑driven candidate ranking, a real‑time analytics dashboard, integrated interview scheduling, and a revamped mobile app. Lever says these tools reduce manual effort and provide...
A LiveCareer survey of over 1,000 U.S. workers finds that 25% of job seekers have ghosted a potential employer at some stage of the hiring process. The most common trigger is accepting another offer, but 39% say a perceived unfair...
