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Archives for April 5, 2026
Payroll Brass Tax: Real-Time Pay, Real-Time Compliance (Podcast)
In this installment of our Payroll Brass Tax podcast series, Mike Mahoney (Morristown/New York) and Stephen Kenney (Dallas) explore the payroll and employment tax implications of on-demand pay, also known as earned wage access (EWA), and how real-time payment systems like the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service are accelerating its adoption.
Why more women are projected to leave the workforce
The percentage of women working through their peak earning years is expected to decline in the next decade, according to Indeed. Priya Rathod, Indeed’s career expert and workplace trends editor, joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss what’s driving the trend and the impact of declining remote or hybrid roles.
Feeling stressed? Get a workplace bestie
In a moment when stress feels like a constant, the simplest solution might also be the most human, finding your person at work
Manager Development Strategy: A Practical Guide
Burnout Looks Different Across the Org Chart. Watch for These Signs.
Burnout isn’t an individual problem—it’s a systemic design issue that shows up differently across the organization chart. Early-career employees burn out from ambiguity and lack of control, managers from “responsibility without…
Here’s where HR and finance aren’t in lockstep, according to Deloitte data
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Each year, Deloitte publishes a guide to technology trends for CFOs and a separate report on human capital trends for HR leaders. Both tackle the same AI-driven disruption reshaping work in 2026. Both are written for senior leaders under real pressure. And yet the two functions are, in places, solving for
NLRB Orders Amazon to Bargain Despite Company’s Objections
Amazon faces a pivotal NLRB decision ordering labor bargaining at a Staten Island fulfillment center but continues to oppose the union certification.
April 2026 Labor Market Review: Hiring Springs Forward
U.S. employment growth rebounded in March 2026, gaining 178,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate ticked down, easing concerns the labor market is deteriorating.
EEOC Sues Blue Eagle Contracting for Religious Discrimination
RENO, Nev. – Blue Eagle Contracting, Inc., a Grass Valley, California-based bulk mail delivery contractor for the U.S. Postal Service, violated federal law when it failed to return a Christian employee truck driver to a weekday shift so he could attend Sunday morning church services, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
HCL America to Pay $495,000 in EEOC Age and National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO – A multinational technology consulting company doing business in the United States as HCL America, Inc., and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, agreed to pay $495,000 and provide injunctive relief to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in August 2024, the federal
Despite being ‘engaged’ at work, nearly half of employees plan to quit
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Nearly half of self-proclaimed “engaged” U.S. and Canadian workers are still likely to seek a new job within the year, according to Firstup’s 2026 State of Employee Engagement Report for North America.
The employee communication and engagement platform surveyed 3,093 U.S. and Canadian workers across corporate, manager and hourly roles
What an employment attorney wants HR leaders to know about AI risk
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Imagine an employee pastes client information into ChatGPT to get a quick summary, with no malicious intent. It’s a worker treating an AI tool like any other productivity shortcut, without insight into what happens to the data on the other side.
It’s exactly the kind of scenario that employment attorney
Why worker focus time is at three-year low
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Last month, ActivTrak’s Productivity Lab released findings from one of the largest workplace behavior datasets ever assembled. Researchers looked at 443 million hours of digital work activity across 1,111 companies and 163,638 employees, spanning three years. They found that AI isn’t really reducing workloads, at least not yet. Apparently, it
Jamie Dimon’s reality check for ambitious workers: ‘There’s going to be a grunt part to every part of a job. Get over it’
The JPMorgan CEO says workers should not simply “get a new job.” Instead, they should stick to one role.