The country’s top official, charged with running the agency that protects the welfare of all US workers, is accused of violating worker rights.Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s troubled tenure at the Francis Perkins Building is again under a microscope as she faces civil rights investigations into her leadership at the department
Monthly Archives: April 2026
Why SiriusXM’s head of people is betting on skills-based design to future-proof its workforce
Faye Tylee is the chief people and administrative officer at SiriusXM, leading the company’s enterprise people strategy including talent, rewards, culture, and employee experience. She’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how HR teams are building systems that
SoundCloud’s VP of people and culture on the hidden skills gap that’s quietly breaking your culture
Allie Shulman is the vice president of people and culture at SoundCloud, where she’s focused on building trust and engagement at scale, and keeping DEI central to how organizations show up. She’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about
Qualtrics’ chief workplace psychologist on why the employee-employer relationship is broken, and who pays the price
Benjamin Granger is the chief workplace psychologist at cloud-based experience management platform Qualtrics, where he leads the intersection between employee and customer experience. He’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how workforce analytics can better support employee development
Pay Practices Report Finds HR Pros Believe Pay is Fair But are not Confident Employees Agree
How 14 Fortune 500 Companies Disrupted Online Recruitment
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Survey: Workplace AI Training Not Keeping Pace with Increasing Adoption
Can an Employee Lose a Discrimination Case by Refusing to Show His Own EEOC Charge?
An engineer got fired for making offensive comments about his non-Christian co-workers, then sued for religious discrimination. There was just one problem: he wouldn’t show anyone the EEOC charge he filed. TL;DR: A federal court in Texas granted summary judgment to a technology employer on an employee’s Title VII religious
Ep158: Succession – It doesn’t need to be TV-worthy drama
Amy Blake: “Bad Luck” Kickstarts a Career in Public Service
IBM agrees to pay $17 million to settle first False Claims Act suit over DEI
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Apr. 10 that it had reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with IBM, whereby the company agreed to pay $17 million in damages over its DEI programming.The government accused the company of violating the False Claims Act, saying IBM “knowingly maintained practices that the United
The Problem With Free: What the Mets—and Hiring Managers—Got Wrong
AI readiness gap is slowing productivity gains
Imagine if NASA built a rocket ship, laid out a plan to go to the moon, but didn’t train the astronauts on how to crew the new vessel.NASA would never. In fact, the Artemis II crew trained for three years in a replica Orion capsule practicing real-world (pun intended) scenarios
HR Consultants: Spring into Compliance Best Practices for 2026
Can Unpaid Volunteers Sue for Discrimination?
A police department ran a volunteer program that looked and felt a lot like a job, complete with uniforms, badges, ranks, performance reviews, and a paramilitary chain of command. Three young women in the program alleged sex discrimination and retaliation, got dismissed, waited over two years to file charges, and







