Category: News

Pay transparency has been a dominant legislative theme in 2025 — and three new updates in the final stretch of the year reinforce it as a lasting standard for employers. Delaware recently passed new pay transparency requirements Massachusetts is expanding its rules this month Cleveland, Ohio, has a municipal ordinance taking effect. Below, we break…

Nearly everyone talks about it. Nearly no one actually does it. Quit social media. But I did it — for you and everyone who works and wonders: Is social media harmless or toxic, helpful or wasteful, or completely inconsequential? While I don’t have all of your answers, my work experiment and life experience, plus expert…

When you scale through 80+ acquisitions in six years, you don’t just need a hiring plan, you need a talent operating system. That’s what Walter Sabrin, Chief Talent Officer at Vensure Employer Solutions, has been building as the company evolved from modest beginnings into the world’s largest private HR outsourcing firm. In HRchat episode 853,…

The amounts you can exclude from an employee’s gross income for certain fringe benefits will increase for 2026, IRS announced. As you know, fringe benefits are generally subject to income tax withholding as well as Social Security and Medicare taxes, unless they meet IRS requirements for exclusion from income. And for many fringe benefits, the…

A newly filed lawsuit in Massachusetts accuses package delivery service provider FedEx of neglecting its legal duty to pay drivers overtime by having the drivers work for intermediate entities called “independent service providers.” The suit essentially asserts that FedEx created the independent service provider model so that it could shirk its legal responsibility under the…

Equity and the Broadway League resume talks amid a looming strike; federal judge lets alcoholism ADA suit proceed; Philadelphia agrees to pay $40,000 to resolve a First Amendment retaliation case.

It’s a relatively uncommon type of Title VII claim, but it happens: An employee sues their employer based on alleged harassment not by a supervisor or co-worker but instead by a client or customer of the employer. In that situation, is the employer liable for the third-party harassment? More specifically, is it enough for the…

About one in three Americans has no emergency savings at all, according to a recent survey by Empower. That means an employee on every team is just one unexpected medical bill away from financial strain that spills into the workplace as missed hours, decreased focus, and lower engagement. Open enrollment is HR’s best chance all…

In today’s news and commentary, the Trump administration threatens no back pay for furloughed federal workers; the Second Circuit denies a request from the NFL for an en banc review in the Brian Flores case; and Governor Gavin Newsom signs an agreement to create a pathway for unionization for Uber and Lyft drivers. 

The Supreme Court kicks off its latest term, granting and declining certiorari in several labor-related cases.