The recent, high-profile $21 million settlement between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Columbia University has sent shockwaves through the ivory towers of American academia, signaling an unprecedented era of federal oversight. This landmark agreement, reached in July 2025,
The financial landscape for employers is fraught with potential pitfalls, but few are as silently accumulating and devastatingly costly as the misclassification of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). A simple misunderstanding of the strict lines separating exempt and nonexempt
A routine workday on a construction site devolved into a scene of tragedy, culminating in a four-month federal investigation that has now cast a harsh spotlight on a local company's safety practices. The probe by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) followed the
In 2026, a record number of professionals are gearing up to quit their jobs, but a critical question looms: are they walking into a career promised land or a competitive dead end? This trend analysis unpacks a critical contradiction shaping the workforce—a surge in employee ambition clashing with a
The Critical Conversation a Guide to Professional and Humane Terminations Letting an employee go is an unavoidable reality of business, but the lingering sting of ambiguity and disrespect that often accompanies the process is entirely preventable. Communicating an employee termination is one of the
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an organization widely regarded as a global authority on workplace practices and a primary resource for HR professionals, now finds itself at the center of a significant legal battle over disability rights. A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court
