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When times are tough, practicing gratitude can improve moods in the workplace

Posted: June 12, 2025 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Practicing and encouraging gratitude can be a simple way to boost morale at a time when layoffs and economic uncertainty are causing stress and anxiety.

Sheetz racial discrimination case is on the chopping block as Trump rewrites civil rights

Posted: June 9, 2025 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws.

Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers

Posted: April 8, 2025 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

The Supreme Court has blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.

MrBeast probe ends with some employees fired but finds no proof of sexual misconduct allegations

Posted: November 3, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture.

Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide

Posted: October 21, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts are set to decide whether employers should be able to continue to pay tipped workers such as servers and bartenders a lower minimum wage than non-tipped workers.

Are digital tools a way for companies to retain hourly workers?

Posted: September 30, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resetting of the economy that followed it made hourly workers more aware of their value.

Major companies abandon an LGBTQ+ rights report card after facing anti-diversity backlash

Posted: September 17, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

More than two decades ago, when gay men and lesbians were prohibited from serving openly in the U.S. military and no state had legalized same-sex marriages, a national LGBTQ+ rights group decided to promote change by grading corporations on their workplace policies.

Judge says Maine can forbid discrimination by religious schools that take state tuition money

Posted: August 14, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Maine didn’t violate the U.S. constitutional rights of religious schools by requiring them to abide by the state’s antidiscrimination law to receive taxpayer-funded tuition assistance, a federal judge ruled. But the judge also acknowledged that a higher court will ultimately have the final say.

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours

Posted: July 11, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Lawrence Cheng, whose family owns seven Wendy’s locations south of Los Angeles, took orders at the register on a recent day and emptied steaming hot baskets of French fries and chicken nuggets, salting them with a flourish.

Work friends can be hard to find. How to combat loneliness in the workplace

Posted: July 8, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Twice each month, executives at the dating app company Hinge gather for a team meeting. But rather than dive into discussions about metrics or revenue, they begin by simply talking.

Union sues Philadelphia over requirement that city workers return to the office full time

Posted: July 2, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

A union that represents thousands of Philadelphia city employees asked a judge Tuesday to block Mayor Cherelle Parker’s requirement that they return to their offices full time as of July 15.

As AI gains a workplace foothold, states are trying to make sure workers don’t get left behind

Posted: July 1, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

With many jobs expected to eventually rely on generative artificial intelligence, states are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter.

Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?

Posted: June 20, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Former President Donald Trump’s new proposal to exclude tips from federal taxes is getting strong reviews from some Republican lawmakers, though major questions remain about the impact of the policy and how it would work.

Snapchat Inc. to pay $15 million to settle discrimination and harassment lawsuit in California

Posted: June 20, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency that claimed the company discriminated against female employees, failed to prevent workplace sexual harassment and retaliated against women who complained.

Colorado justices consider a pink and blue cake’s meaning in a transgender discrimination case

Posted: June 19, 2024 | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: AP News

From plain white cakes to rainbow-colored ones, the Colorado Supreme Court considered a variety of hypothetical cake-design scenarios Tuesday as it heard arguments in the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a pink cake with blue icing to celebrate a gender transition.

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