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AI is here – not as a distant disruptor, but as a daily presence in how organizations plan, communicate, and make decisions. The real challenge isn’t technological adoption; it’s cultural transformation. In episode 856 of the HRchat Podcast, my co-host David Creelman and I sat down with Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer at Culture…

Can you keep your best people from walking out the door? Shy of barricading the door, probably not. But you can create a workplace where your best people want to stay. The key: Start focusing more on retaining the top performers and less on controlling low performers. That’s the gist of research from Neel Doshi and…

Chances are, some of your employees are still on the fence about HSAs. Open enrollment is the perfect time to influence adoption — and a WEX analysis of 7.5 million accounts shows that modest HSA employer contributions can drive measurable participation gains. Most HR teams already know employer funding boosts HSA participation – the real…

California labor unions back Proposition 50; Harvard University officials challenge a union rally; and workers at Boeing prepare to vote on the company’s fifth contract proposal.

The Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU) and Harvard University are six months into negotiations over their third collective bargaining agreement. Like many other grad unions engaged in contract bargaining, HGSU is facing stiff opposition — the University has issued rejection after rejection after rejection of the Union’s proposals. At the same time, anxiety over the possible overturning of Columbia — the 2016 National…

COVID may feel like a thing of the past, but its legal fallout continues. A Pennsylvania school worker’s religious accommodation claim from the pandemic years just failed in court — a reminder that these disputes are still playing out. Religious Accommodation Claim Centers on COVID Quarantine Gregory Bingham worked for the Philadelphia School District as…

Amazon Labor Union intervenes in NYS PERB lawsuit; a union engages in shareholder activism; and Meta lays off hundreds of risk auditing workers.

Lynn Rhinehart on the Faster Labor Contracts Act.

Time to update your systems: SSA has announced the 2026 Social Security taxable wage base. Next year’s number will increase to $184,500 – that’s $8,400 more than the current amount of $176,100. So, the official projection released earlier this year ($183,600) was slightly low, although not too far off. The Social Security tax, as set…

Ninth Circuit reaffirms Thryv remedies; unions oppose Elon Musk pay package; more federal workers protected from shutdown-related layoffs.