Engineer Says AT&T Unit Fired Him for Flagging Slurs, Suspected Fraud
Former AT&T Technical Services lead network engineer Benjamin Balfour filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination after he reported coworkers’ slurs and suspected fraud on a federal contract. He claims HR dismissed his complaints as “workplace culture” and that the company changed the firing rationale from alleged political speech to sexual misconduct within days. The complaint lists 12 counts under Title VII, Virginia whistleblower protections, and seeks back pay, damages, and a jury trial. The case highlights potential retaliation risks for whistleblowers in defense contracting.
GM Lawsuit Claims Forced Ranking System Targets Older Workers for Termination
General Motors introduced a forced‑ranking performance system in 2024, aiming to cut its white‑collar workforce by about 10% annually to create space for younger hires. A veteran engineer, Shujat Khan, alleges the system was used to target him for termination...
Ninth Circuit Affirms Legacy Health's Vaccine Mandate over Religious Exemption Claims
The Ninth Circuit affirmed Legacy Health’s COVID‑19 vaccine mandate, rejecting the religious exemption claims of nine employees. The court applied the Supreme Court’s 2023 Groff undue‑hardship standard, emphasizing that non‑financial burdens such as staffing shortages and patient safety constitute substantial...
Air India’s Town Hall: No Layoffs — But Salary Bumps Are Paused
Air India told staff that no layoffs are planned despite a projected fiscal‑2026 loss exceeding $2.3 billion. However, the airline will defer annual salary increases for at least one quarter as part of a broader cost‑containment drive. CEO Campbell Wilson urged employees...
Teknismart Solutions Launches iParley Trust Platform for IT Hiring and Procurement
Teknismart Solutions unveiled iParley, a trust‑infrastructure platform aimed at streamlining IT hiring and vendor procurement. The service lets professionals and agencies validate credentials through a self‑permissioned framework, moving verification earlier in the workflow. By sharing consent‑driven proof of claims, organizations...
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
Meta announced it will begin tracking U.S. employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks and screen content to feed its artificial‑intelligence models. The policy, rolled out to tens of thousands of staff, sparked immediate backlash, with workers posting angry emojis and demanding...
Nvidia's VP of Deep Learning Says AI Workers Are Already 'Far Beyond the Costs of the Employees'
Nvidia’s vice‑president of applied deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, told Axios that the compute spend for his team now exceeds the total payroll for its employees. The remark underscores how AI development costs have ballooned, even as Nvidia’s AI‑driven growth helped...
April 2026 Jobs Report: Moving, But Not Moving Along
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nonfarm payrolls rose by 115,000 in April, keeping the unemployment rate steady at 4.3%. Average hourly earnings increased 0.2% from March and are up 3.6% year‑over‑year. Healthcare added 618,000 jobs over the...
Trump Administration Lifts a Hold on Immigration Applications for Doctors, but Leaves Others in Limbo
The Trump administration has lifted a hold on immigration applications for physicians, allowing pending visa and green‑card cases to be reviewed again. The exemption comes after a broader pause that halted green‑card and visa processing for nationals of dozens of...
The Overlooked Metric That Shapes Long Term Recruitment Success
Recruitment agencies often tout client‑centricity, yet most fail to measure satisfaction systematically. As firms scale, intuition gives way to silent drops in client happiness, which later manifest as reduced repeat business, lower margins, and lost PSL agreements. The article argues...
How Corporate DEI Executives Should Be Advising C-Suite Leaders
In a May 8, 2026 interview, Soon Mee Kim—board chair of Diversity Action Alliance and new CMO of Zero RFI—explains how DEI executives should counsel C‑suite leaders amid heightened polarization. She categorizes current DEI work into three flawed models: “witness protection,” “figurehead,” and “compliance...
Strong April Jobs Report Masks a Looming Workforce Crisis
The U.S. added 115,000 jobs in April, outpacing expectations and keeping the unemployment rate at 4.3%. Economists warn that a shrinking labor pool, driven by an aging population, reduced immigration and discouraged workers, masks a looming talent shortage. A looming...
Board Diversity Is Good, but Inclusion Is Important Too: Study of SGX Listcos
A joint Council for Board Diversity‑Egon Zehnder study of 170 SGX‑listed directors finds that 73% believe board diversity can improve performance, trailing the 85% global consensus. Only 40% strongly agree that diversity leads to richer discussions, compared with 67% worldwide,...
'Pharma, Not Really’: Top Young AI Talent Shuns Careers at Big Drugmakers
Top AI researchers like 33‑year‑old postdoctoral fellow Mazdak Abulnaga are increasingly turning away from legacy pharmaceutical companies. The article highlights a growing perception that big drugmakers are bureaucratic, data‑restricted, and slow to adopt cutting‑edge machine‑learning tools. In contrast, startups, academia,...
First Half 2026 Release: What’s New in SAP SuccessFactors HCM?
SAP SuccessFactors announced its First Half 2026 HCM release, delivering more than 400 new features across the suite. The update emphasizes agility, tighter integration of people, data, and processes, and introduces AI‑driven agents to streamline core HR and payroll tasks. Among...
Food Lion Honors Employees For 30-45 Years Of Service
Food Lion honored over 400 associates who reached 30 to 45 years of service at its April 30 Service Awards ceremony. The honorees collectively represent more than 14,000 years of tenure, underscoring deep employee loyalty. President Greg Finchum highlighted that...
The Engineers Behind the Best Lasers in the World
Sciton, dubbed the “Bentley of Lasers,” earned Engineering.com’s 2026 Top Workplace for Engineers, highlighting a culture that challenges and supports its R&D staff. The company’s legacy began with the tunable Erbium Contour TRL laser, which set new safety standards, and continues...
Challenger: April Job Cuts Surged 38%—What’s Next?
U.S. employers announced 83,387 layoffs in April, a 38% jump from March, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The surge marks the most active month for cuts this year, though cumulative layoffs remain below 2025 levels. Hard‑hit sectors such as...
Why More Texas Small Businesses Are Switching From Group Plans to Association Plans
Texas small businesses are grappling with traditional group health insurance that averages $7,000‑$9,000 per employee annually, making coverage for a 10‑person team comparable to a full marketing budget. To curb these costs, many are turning to association health plans (AHPs),...
Is Your Baby's Name Already Costing Them Job Interviews? Scientists Reveal 36 to Avoid
A 2025 study in Acta Psychologica shows that first names containing “spiky” phonemes such as k, t, p and i are judged as less warm and agreeable, leading to fewer interview callbacks for roles that value those traits. The researchers...
Flex Partners with JOON to Bring HSA/FSA Shopping to Employer Benefits Platforms
Flex announced a partnership with employee‑benefits platform JOON, embedding its HSA/FSA marketplace directly into JOON’s system. The integration lets employees browse and purchase eligible health‑and‑wellness products using pre‑tax dollars without leaving the JOON interface. Flex will manage eligibility, compliance and...
Eightfold AI Announces Integration of Agentic Interviewing with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting
Eightfold AI announced that its autonomous AI Interviewer is now integrated with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting, part of Oracle’s HCM suite. The integration embeds Eightfold’s skills‑based interview engine—covering screening, functional, and coding interviews—directly into Oracle’s recruiting workflows. It enables enterprise...
10 Percent Happier at Work: Dan Harris on Mental Health, Burnout and More
Dan Harris, former ABC News anchor and author of the bestseller *10% Happier*, delivered a keynote at the BenefitsPRO Broker Expo in Chicago, highlighting the rising burnout crisis—affecting more than half of American workers. He shared personal stories of depression,...
Two-Thirds of Mobility Teams Too Buried in Admin to Build Trust, Study Finds
A new EY study of roughly 1,000 HR and mobility professionals and assignees finds that two‑thirds of mobility teams are mired in administrative work, leaving little capacity to build trust with employees. The research identifies four trust drivers—strategic integration, operational...
The Hottest Job in Sports: A WNBA Front Office Role
The WNBA’s 30th season arrives amid record fan interest, lucrative media rights and a historic collective bargaining agreement, prompting rapid expansion of team front offices. League‑wide staff numbers have surged, with the New York Liberty growing from 12 to 30...
Using AI as a Teammate Can Create Space for Skills Development
ADP Research’s Today at Work 2026 survey of 39,000 workers shows only 26% feel equipped with skills for career advancement and fewer than one‑in‑five believe their employer invests in development. The report also finds AI adoption is low, with just...
Employee Benefits Live 2026: Registration Now Open
Employee Benefits Live 2026, Europe’s largest HR rewards and benefits conference, has opened registration for its October 13‑14 event at Excel London. The two‑day program features four themed theatres covering AI and the future of work, whole‑person wellbeing, employee experience, and...
As Companies Use AI to Justify Layoffs, Josh Bersin Says HR Is Solving the Wrong Problem
At a senior HR summit in Amsterdam, analyst Josh Bersin warned that many firms are using AI as a pretext for workforce reductions, treating headcount cuts as digital transformation. He argued that this logic is strategically flawed and unlikely to...
As Companies Use AI to Justify Layoffs, Josh Bersin Says HR Is Solving the Wrong Problem
Josh Bersin warned senior HR leaders at HR Tech Europe 2026 that using AI to justify headcount cuts is a strategic misstep. He argued that trimming a third of an HR workforce would barely move the financial needle, and that...
Tribunal Restores Salary Rights for BSNL Employee
The Central Administrative Tribunal ordered Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to continue paying full salary to a junior telecom officer until his retirement, overturning the company’s 2019 decision to force his retirement on grounds of mental illness. The employee, hired...
Microland Gets Vithal Acharya as CHRO
Vithal Acharya has been appointed chief human resources officer of Microland, the AI‑first tech‑infrastructure services firm. He joins after a stint as partner at Stanton Chase India and a career spanning senior HR roles at HCL Technologies, GE, Sterlite Power,...
How SAP Signavio, LeanIX, CALM & SuccessFactors Form a Unified HR IT Architecture
Most HR IT departments keep process documentation, architecture repositories, system landscapes, and HR applications in separate silos. SAP proposes connecting Signavio, LeanIX, CALM, and SuccessFactors to form a unified Process‑to‑People architecture. The integration aligns business processes with technology assets, providing...
Recruitment Firms Set to Sustain Bonuses Despite Economic Headwinds – REC
The REC and KPMG UK report finds UK recruitment firms will largely keep 2026 bonuses unchanged, with 32‑49% of agencies planning no payout adjustments. Fee‑earning consultants are expected to see modest uplifts, while junior and support roles face flatter rewards....
The Team Makes Three Global Appointments Across Music Division
The TEAM announced three senior hires for its music division: Julia May in New York to lead artist development, Sarah Thia in Singapore to head tour marketing across Asia, and Sheila Mukasa in London to oversee pricing and ticketing strategy. May...
The CIPD’s Festival of Work 2026 to Feature Keynotes From Alice Roberts, Diana Osagie, Richard Osman, and Tim Harford
The CIPD Festival of Work 2026 will run June 10‑11 at Excel London, offering free registration to an expected 12,000+ HR professionals. More than 130 speakers—including Alice Roberts, Diana Osagie, Richard Osman and Tim Harford—will address AI, employee experience, wellbeing and leadership. The two‑day...
EVP Isn’t Failing. Execution Is (A 25 Year+ Perspective)
The article argues that employer value propositions (EVPs) are not failing; rather, companies stumble in executing them. While many organizations craft insightful, differentiated EVP statements, they often treat them as static launch documents instead of lived experiences. Execution gaps appear...
WPP Shareholders Approve CEO Cindy Rose’s Potential $14.8M Pay Package
WPP shareholders have approved a new compensation plan for CEO Cindy Rose that caps her total annual pay at $14.8 million, up from the $10.8 million limit for her predecessor. The package includes a $1.7 million base salary (about £1.25 million) and performance‑linked bonuses....
Turning Mental Health Parity Into Progress Now a Business Imperative
Voya’s State of Employee Benefits 2026 report finds mental health at the core of employee well‑being, with 91% of employers saying it positively impacts overall health. One‑in‑five U.S. adults experience mental illness annually, and gaps in provider availability, cost and...
Beyond Motherhood: The Unseen Fertility Struggles of Working Women
Singapore’s total fertility rate dropped to a historic 0.87 in 2025, raising alarms about long‑term workforce sustainability. The article follows Lynn Lim, a senior operations manager, who spent a decade undergoing IVF while leading a team, highlighting the silence around fertility...
Adcolor Marks 20 Years With a New Program for a Changed DEI Landscape
Adcolor marks its 20th anniversary by unveiling a revamped, year‑long DEI programming slate for 2026, shifting focus from a single conference to multiple events across Cannes, New York, and Los Angeles. The organization also revamps its flagship Awards, moving to an alumni‑jury...
Consider These Tips for Complying with EEOC Priorities
The EEOC is pivoting its enforcement focus toward equity rather than equality, scrutinizing programs that advantage protected classes and emphasizing disparate treatment over disparate impact. Chair Andrea Lucas highlighted this shift in a February 26, 2026 letter to Fortune 500...
The CIO Succession Gap Nobody Admits
The article highlights a hidden CIO succession crisis: most CIOs groom technical architects rather than leaders, leaving a shallow bench when they try to exit. CEOs and boards struggle to identify credible successors because deputies lack decision‑making experience and board...
Inadequate, Seniority-Based Paid Annual Leave Hurts Women: Activists
Civil groups in Taiwan urged the government to overhaul the Labor Standards Act by increasing paid annual leave and removing its seniority‑based structure. Activists argue the current system, which grants up to 30 days only after 25 years of service,...
No Immediate Move to Expand Leave for Preterm Births or Adoption, Says Minister Indranee Rajah
Singapore's government will not expand paid leave for preterm births or adoption at this time, Minister Indranee Rajah said. The decision follows recent enhancements that now provide 30 weeks of parental leave, including a 10‑week Shared Parental Leave scheme. Officials...
Navigating the Talent Shortage
The Advancetrack 2026 Accounting Talent Index shows a deepening talent shortage that is forcing accounting firms to turn away clients, operate at near‑full capacity, and slow growth. Over 500 respondents report mental‑health strain among practitioners and cite workflow redesign, cloud‑based...
Up the Ranks: Nishidaran Chandran Takes on Wider HR Mandate at MUFG as MD & CHRO-APAC
MUFG Bank has promoted Nishidaran Chandran to Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer for Asia Pacific, effective May 11, 2026. The role expands his oversight from four markets—Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Myanmar—to the entire APAC region, and adds...
HR Rebooted Launches MyCareer Navigator, an AI Platform Helping Organizations Guide People Through Career Disruption
HR Rebooted has launched MyCareer Navigator, an AI‑driven platform that assesses how artificial intelligence may disrupt individual jobs and offers personalized career guidance. The tool delivers risk scores, skill assessments, AI‑resilience ratings, transition plans, resume building and AI‑feedback interview practice....
Hybrid Working Is Changing How Your People Deal With Data
Hybrid working has become the norm in the UK, offering flexibility and higher retention, but it also introduces behavioral data‑risk. Employees now juggle laptops, personal phones, home networks and third‑party apps, causing information to drift beyond controlled systems. This drift,...
7 Best Interview Scheduling Software On G2: My Go-To Picks
The article reviews seven interview‑scheduling platforms, ranking them by specific hiring needs. Calendly Sales excels at fast, self‑serve external scheduling, while ADP Workforce Now embeds scheduling within core HR and payroll. Grayscale leverages SMS for real‑time candidate outreach, Ashby offers...
No Deal Reached at CUPE Long Term Care Table
Long‑term care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) failed to secure a new contract with the Nova Scotia government, leaving negotiations deadlocked. The government’s latest proposal would lift wages to just over $23 CAD (about $17...