HR in Five

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  California Signs AI Workplace Laws, EEOC Sues Harvard 02.10.2026 5мин

  Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package revamping California's AI protections for workers, HR Dive reported, with compliance practitioners questioning enforceability and an undefined human-review threshold. Personnel Today reports the employment tribunal claim deadline doubles from three months to six, shifting attention to document retention, and the EEOC sued Harvard in federal court in Boston to enforce a subpoena for faculty recruitment records back to 2018. Also covered: a fertility benefit surviving a Bostock-based bias claim, Wall Street's roughly 84,000 September job growth expectation per CNBC, and EEOC suits against Bollinger Shipyards and Kroger's Fred Meyer.
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  DEI Training Suit Advances, Florida Hits $15 30.09.2026 5мин

  The Ninth Circuit let a hostile work environment claim built on Seattle's mandatory diversity training proceed, HR Dive reports, putting session design and facilitation at issue. Florida's minimum wage rose to fifteen dollars an hour today, completing the schedule voters approved in 2020, per Restaurant Business, while Gusto data carried by CNHI News shows small businesses added an estimated 28,000 net jobs in September. Bloomberg Law reports the EEOC has sued Bombardier over a pulmonary function test used to screen conditional-offer applicants, plus a separate religious discrimination suit against a New York coffee chain.
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  Payroll Software Breached Again, and 23,000 Fired and Rehired 28.09.2026 4мин

  HRD Canada reports the ShinyHunters group is back inside Oracle PeopleSoft, citing Google's security team's warning that the intruders got past fixes applied after the earlier wave, and Personnel Today reports roughly 23,000 Glasgow City Council employees will be fired and rehired on new contracts after an equal pay dispute went unresolved. The EEOC has sued Mercy Health and parent Bon Secours Mercy Health, alleging in unproven claims that an orthopedic surgeon was fired because he is Jewish, and Personnel Today carries guidance on right-to-work check changes taking effect from October 2026. Also: a pushed-back trade union statement duty, Labor Department opioid overdose guidance, 250 more Starbucks closures, and UK pay awards forecast at 3 percent for 2027.
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  EEOC Limits Enforcement, DoorDash Pays $131.5M 24.09.2026 5мин

  Metro Weekly reports the EEOC agreed to a partial settlement limiting enforcement of certain gender-identity discrimination claims against current and future members of the Christian Employers Alliance, covering pronoun use, dress codes and facilities access. DoorDash will pay 131.5 million dollars to settle New York City findings that it underpaid, paid late, or failed to pay more than 260,000 delivery workers, per HRD Canada. Also: HR Dive on an IBM study where HR chiefs say wider AI use will erode vital human skills, and Statistics Canada figures showing the slowest July-to-July population growth since 1945.
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  Bereavement Leave Gets a 2027 Date 23.09.2026 5мин

  Personnel Today reports the government has named April 2027 as the commencement date for new bereavement leave rights, which will cover pregnancy loss. A judge dismissed the race bias and retaliation claims brought by Purdue's former diversity chief after rejecting all three comparators offered, per HR Dive. Gartner projects, via HRD Canada, that 30 percent of employees laid off because AI replaced them will need rehiring by 2029, often at significantly higher cost.
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  Starbucks Settles Florida DEI Suit, Nationwide Limits 22.09.2026 5мин

  Starbucks agreed to pay one million dollars and drop race and sex-based employment preferences nationwide under a settlement with Florida, per HR Grapevine and HR Dive. A new IBM Institute for Business Value study finds 60 percent of employees worry AI is eroding their skills, while CHROs and staff disagree on how much judgment matters. Also: Ottawa's Bill C-39 amendments to the Canada Labour Code, Disney extending return-to-office rules to product and technology staff, and Oracle capping layoff severance at 26 weeks.
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  Amazon Lifts Wage Floor to $20; EEOC Warns on Pregnancy Notes 18.09.2026 5мин

  Amazon raises its minimum starting wage to twenty dollars an hour alongside new grocery discounts for staff, per HR Dive, while the EEOC uses two conciliations to tell employers to leave pregnancy-related risk assessments to medical professionals. An Aon survey reported by HR Dive finds only a third of employers have run a pay remediation analysis, and Personnel Today reports staff backlash to Barclays' latest return-to-office mandate. Also today: UK workers spending an estimated 958 million pounds a year on their own AI tools per Deloitte, a new lawsuit against Activision Blizzard's HR department, around two hundred proposed KPMG UK advisory cuts, and HRD Canada survey data showing more than half of HR leaders considered a career change this year.
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  Gartner Says a Third of AI Job Cuts Will Be Reversed 11.09.2026 5мин

  A Gartner forecast reported by HRD Canada and Computerworld says thirty percent of positions cut in AI-related layoffs will need to be refilled by 2029, often at higher cost, while other analysts question the methodology. California passes a bill barring employers from using AI to track emotions or neural data, per HR Executive, and the EEOC asks a federal judge to enforce a subpoena in its probe of San Francisco's mandated DEI training, HR Dive reports. Also: UK right-to-work checks widen to contractors from October, August payrolls come in at 162,000, and Channel 4 is expected to announce around 300 job losses.
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  Amazon Sued Over Pregnancy Accommodations 10.09.2026 5мин

  Four former warehouse employees have sued Amazon in federal court in New York, alleging it denied basic pregnancy accommodations and fired them under its attendance policy, a claim Amazon disputes, Ars Technica reports. The Labor Department issued three opinion letters on wage and hour questions, including one finding a fourteen-minute walk to a break area did not necessarily violate the Fair Labor Standards Act, per HR Dive, and federal officials warned that schedule changes and transfers may count as retaliation under USERRA following a 2025 amendment. Also: August payrolls rose by 162,000 per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the EEOC sued Family Dollar Stores of North Carolina, and IBM was ordered to pay nearly $900,000 over a wrongful dismissal.
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  EEOC subpoenas a city's DEI training records 09.09.2026 5мин

  Bloomberg Law reports the EEOC asked a California federal judge to compel San Francisco to hand over diversity training documents, tied to a bias charge from a White former employee. HR Executive reports Volkswagen has agreed to reductions totaling 100,000 jobs by the end of the decade, with four plants' futures unclear, and that about 450 Cigna employees petitioned the insurer to restore GLP-1 weight loss drug coverage. Also: Uber drivers filed a collective action over algorithmic management, Chief Justice Roberts denied Red Rock's emergency stay in the Culinary union case, and UK permanent placements rose in August for the first time in nearly two years.
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  NLRB's Top Lawyer Names Her Targets 08.09.2026 5мин

  A Foley Hoag analysis carried by Mondaq counts more than a dozen Biden-era labor board decisions that General Counsel Crystal Carey intends to challenge, with briefs already filed on severance agreements, work rules and captive-audience meetings. Personnel Today reports Next won its equal pay appeal after the Employment Appeal Tribunal found market forces a legitimate aim, and argues the Mobley versus Workday case is a reason to keep humans in charge of recruitment. Also: announced US job cuts rose nearly 60 percent from July to August per HR Executive, the Fair Work Agency named 658 employers for minimum wage underpayments, and Jaguar Land Rover is expected to open an extensive redundancy programme.
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  Benefits Costs Spike, Payrolls Beat, VW Cuts 50,000 07.09.2026 4мин

  HR Executive reports Marsh projects the steepest health benefits cost increase in 24 years, citing health care consolidation and GLP-1 use. August US nonfarm payrolls rose 162,000 against expectations of 56,000, with unemployment at 4.1%, per Bureau of Labor Statistics figures reported by FXStreet, while HR Dive quotes economists calling the market fragile. Volkswagen will cut roughly 50,000 jobs by the end of the decade under its board-approved Future Plan 2030, per HRD Canada, alongside an FMLA ruling on comparators, Canadian job losses, and two federal appeals court decisions.
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  Uber's Third Restructuring, and a Court Trims the NLRB 04.09.2026 5мин

  HR Executive reports Uber paired its third restructuring of 2026 with a firmer in-office policy, targeting managers with only one or two direct reports. The Second Circuit declined to enforce an NLRB order on Starbucks pin and logo-shirt policies, sending the analysis back to the Board, per Courthouse News Service, while HR Dive frames 2027 pay budgets at 3.3 percent as a fourth straight year of moderate increases. Also covered: a Labor Department warning on conflicting tobacco wellness rules, steady small-business job growth, a data center skills shortage, an age-bias suit against Southern Company Services, rising CHRO turnover, and EY's $100 million rewards pool.
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  ADP Misses, Uber Cuts 3,300 03.09.2026 5мин

  ADP reported 38,000 private-sector jobs added in August, below the 48,000 forecast, with manufacturing and professional services shedding positions. Uber will cut roughly 3,300 jobs, about 10 percent of its workforce, with middle management bearing the brunt, and the NLRB has asked the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a decision narrowing its rulemaking power. Also: SHRM finds fewer than half of organizations have an AI policy, and American Airlines settles an EEOC disability suit for 200,000 dollars.
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  States Push Back On EEO-1 Rescission 02.09.2026 5мин

  Eight state and local civil rights agencies filed a joint letter opposing the EEOC's proposal to rescind the EEO-1 demographic collection, per StateScoop, while the Teamsters announced a one-day unfair labor practice strike at Amazon's DJT6 warehouse in Riverside, California. Professional and business services shed 188,000 hires in July, the only sectoral change the BLS flagged as significant in Tuesday's JOLTS report, according to Tech Times, and Gartner research reported by HR Dive found employees now rank pay growth and bonuses above wellness benefits. Also: Quebec's secularism law takes effect, Ford settles EEOC graffiti allegations for 2.3 million dollars, and the EEOC found reasonable cause in a harassment case involving Cisco.
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  3.3% Merit Budgets, California's Neural Data Bill, and an EEOC Cause Finding at Cisco 01.09.2026 5мин

  HR Dive reports US employers plan to raise base salary budgets an average of 3.3% in 2027, with most companies also expecting incentive payouts below target. A California bill banning workplace AI emotion surveillance and neural data collection has cleared the legislature and awaits Governor Newsom's signature, and the Guardian reports the EEOC's San Jose office found reasonable cause that Cisco subjected a class of workers to a hostile work environment based on national origin and religion, a finding Cisco disputes. Also covered: an arbitrator ordering The Washington Post to reinstate Karen Attiah, August's eight employment settlements, Spain's draft pay transparency decree, and Friday's payrolls expectations.
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  The Payroll Baseline Just Moved 31.08.2026 5мин

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics cut US employment through March by 79,000 jobs in its preliminary benchmark revision, with private payrolls down 178,000 and monthly gains reset to about 11,000. NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey issued an August 26 memo previewing challenges to precedent on severance confidentiality, work rules and captive-audience meetings, per a Barnes and Thornburg analysis. Also: BLS projects word processors and typists as the fastest-shrinking occupation over the next decade, Glassdoor data shows employee sentiment on AI tools turning negative, and the EEOC has sued airline caterer Gate Gourmet over harassment complaints in Denver.
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  EEOC Commissioner Defends Enforcement, Workday's AI Revenue 28.08.2026 4мин

  EEOC Commissioner Brittany Panuccio pushed back on claims the agency has taken a maximalist approach under the Trump administration, Bloomberg Law reports, while a proposed rescission of mandatory workforce demographic reporting draws industry attention. The Labor Department and other agencies addressed how wellness program surcharges may be designed, per HR Dive, and Workday posted 2.65 billion dollars in second quarter revenue with more than 100 million dollars of new annual contract value tied to AI products, according to Reuters and Investing.com. Also: recruiters report AI resume screening surfaces more qualified candidates while cutting some applicants early, congressional scrutiny of McKinsey's diversity research, record HSA balances, and 36 percent of employers cutting entry-level roles.
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  Health Costs Climb, The Times Sues the EEOC 26.08.2026 4мин

  HR Executive reports US employer health care costs are projected to rise 9.5 percent in 2027, a fourth straight year of near double-digit trends, with an Aon analysis cited by HR Dive finding employers cover more than 80 percent of the burden. Bloomberg Law reports The New York Times sued the EEOC in the Southern District of New York over FOIA requests for records on White workers' race bias charges, while defending the agency's claim it discriminated against a White male editor. Also: September WARN filings from FedEx, Kroger, Chick-fil-A, Chime Financial and WellStar; research showing 6 percent of leaders call their middle managers ready to lead change; and a settlement between the American Alliance for Equal Rights and Deloitte.
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  A Second H-1B Fee, and Uber's 825 Million Euro Robo-Firing Fine 25.08.2026 4мин

  HR Dive reports federal officials are preparing a second H-1B fee stacking on the existing 100,000 dollar payment, with litigation expected once it is finalized, and separately reports a judge found United Airlines' retention of a pilot accused of harassment may have been criminally negligent. Personnel Today reports the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber 825 million euros over automated systems used to suspend and deactivate drivers. Also covered: a study finding companies that rolled back DEI programs saw no financial gain, the proposed end of the 60-day H-1B grace period, a Ninth Circuit ruling on arbitration claims, and CIPD data on zero-hours contract costs.