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Lilly targets employers in new bid to broaden access to obesity drugs
A service tailored to people with workplace-based insurance coverage represents a new way for Lilly to bypass insurers and expand use of its popular obesity shot.
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Faced with rising healthcare costs, workers are delaying care, retirement savings
“Affordability shapes both access to care and longer-term financial security,” an EBRI director said.
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HR must reinvent itself to stay relevant, report stresses
Under a potential model articulated by Mercer, HR shifts from being a service provider to the architect of work itself.
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Greater autonomy may lead to lower levels of burnout
Employees who endured a chronic workload imbalance and felt they lacked a voice in the workplace were more likely to show signs of exhaustion, according to a University of Phoenix white paper.
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NFL’s Commanders pay $1M to settle DC workplace harassment lawsuit
The multiyear saga featured public denials of the employees’ claims from executives of the team, which reportedly maintained an understaffed HR department.
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Fired HR specialist wasn’t entitled to retroactive FMLA, 7th Circuit holds
The employee allegedly failed to comply with the employer’s call-out policy.
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Trump’s anti-DEI orders stand for now, but future challenges can’t be ruled out
The White House is emboldened to act “aggressively,” making it important for employers to audit their DEI programs, attorneys told HR Dive.
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Why pay-for-performance programs don’t always work
Pay “sends a powerful message about what the organization values, who it invests in, and how effort translates into opportunity,” a McLean & Co. director said.
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Opinion
How should HR handle politics in the workplace?
When an employee’s political expression interferes with business operations, HR must know how to proceed, writes David Urban, senior counsel at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.
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Why do workaholics work so much? Company culture, Monster says
A lack of work-life balance and fear of layoffs were also given as reasons why employees overwork in the Monster report.
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10th Circuit: Pest and cleanliness issues — not age bias — caused Chipotle leader’s firing
A former field leader in New Mexico did not sufficiently present pretextual evidence that age factored into the company’s decision to terminate him, the court said.
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Leaders say AI skills now are as fundamental as the ability to write
Yet about half of those surveyed said there are “significant” skills gaps within their company.
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Glassdoor: Women’s earnings tend to stall out at 35
Even when they never have children or leave the workforce, women still tend to make “significantly less” than men in their 50s, the report noted.
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The good side of workplace gossip? It brings people together, research says
Subordinates who gossip about their boss together may feel more collaborative that day.
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DOL provides $81M for training of formerly incarcerated individuals
The agency said the funding is aimed at helping people gain experience and secure employment in skilled trades and high-demand industries like manufacturing.
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Complying with customers’ race-based preferences violates Title VII, EEOC lawsuit warns
A Black certified nursing assistant for a Michigan home care company alleged she was not assigned certain patients because they “don’t care for Black people,” according to a complaint filed by the agency.
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Haribo gets jury win against employee it claimed stole company Mercedes-Benz
The dispute occurred after the plaintiff alleged race- and sex-based discrimination and asked for a “mutual separation” from the company.
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CEOs see AI as the biggest business risk, exceeding geopolitical turmoil
CEOs and CFOs, confronting the rapid spread of AI, face the risk of underperforming by investing either too little or too much in the far-reaching technology.
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A flurry of federal compliance activity
In the past week alone, big news dropped from the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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AI skills surpass IT, engineering as the most difficult to find, report says
“This historic shift highlights a new era in the persistent global talent crisis,” ManpowerGroup said.
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Week in review: A productivity problem waiting to happen
We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from how raises perpetuate pay gaps to accelerating disruption in the talent market.
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Opinion
AI is transforming HR — but CHROs can’t afford to lose the skills that matter most
If CHROs focus disproportionately on technical upskilling, fundamental skills may erode that are very hard to rebuild, Gartner experts wrote.
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EEOC says agencies may issue bathroom policies that restrict trans federal workers
The commission overturned a 2015 ruling that outlawed bans on transgender employees’ use of bathrooms consistent with their gender identities.
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HR pros on the move in February
Major players in the AI space are among those making hires for top HR roles.