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In 2024, class-action settlements continued to reach historic highs for the third year in a row, and employment-side lawyers expect more to come in 2025.
Here’s a look at some of the numbers making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
5
The number of days per week employees of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will have to work in the office, according to a Bloomberg report. The financial services company’s competitor, Goldman Sachs, also requires workers to be in the office every day.
13%
The percentage of decline in interest there was for skills in GPT in both usage and searches, according to learning platform O’Reilly’s Technology Trends for 2025 report. However, interest in artificial intelligence-related skills surged, namely in prompt engineering, AI principles and generative AI.
65.5%
The share of workers who identified minimal annual leave as the biggest red flag they see in job ads, according to a survey by StandOut CV. That was followed by companies wanting workers to engage with their social media and omitting salary details from job postings.
$99,000
The amount United Airlines will pay to settle a claim that the airline tolerated and failed to investigate a manager’s use of a slur toward a worker of Mongolian ancestry. In addition to paying back pay and damages to the worker, the airline will also give the worker 75,000 miles through United’s loyalty program.
$40 billion
The amount class-action settlements exceeded for the third consecutive year, according to Duane Morris LLP’s Class Action Review 2025. The total value of the top 10 highest settlements in each class-action area hit $42 billion in 2024.
