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Safety risk insufficient to show religious accommodation posed undue hardship, court rules
The case adds to the 9th Circuit’s analysis of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and religious accommodation, a topic on which the court has sometimes sided with employers....
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Alleged DEI-motivated hirings and promotions cost Accenture $25M in DOJ settlement
The U.S. Department of Justice said certain candidates were highlighted to leadership and directed into a “pipeline” due to their race and sex characteristics....
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Judge says disability bias lawsuit against SHRM must proceed
A candidate previously alleged that the HR organization rescinded a job offer after she requested to have her trained service dog accompany her to the office as a reasonable accommodation....
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Is AI killing worker cognition?
Employees have reported in various surveys that AI tool use has worsened their critical thinking skills, affected their judgment and even made them less intelligent....
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Recording, Transcription & AI Are Becoming the Norm in Job Interviews
How should employers and job seekers prepare? Recording, transcription, and AI-generated summaries are routine in business meetings, helping connect remote teams or loop in absent team members. However, the practice is also spreading to job interviews, changing not only how candi...
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AI engineers say they know AI’s ethical risks, but workplace culture silences them
Research on the topic was presented the same week an ex-Anthropic engineer warned that his peers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”...
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Amazon invests $230M in benefits, pay for Whole Foods store employees
As the company continues to merge its operations with the specialty grocer, this next investment focuses on its front-line workers.
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AI hasn’t significantly improved the speed of hiring, report finds
A quarter of employers reported a slowdown in time-to-hire in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago.