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Dayforce launches AI agents & workspace to boost HR efficiency
Dayforce has announced the introduction of Dayforce AI Agents and Dayforce AI Workspace for its human capital management platform. The Dayforce AI Agents have been designed to integrate intelligence directly into workflows within the Dayforce...

Ministry of Labour Holds Townhall Meeting to Discuss Reforms to the Employment and the Industrial Relations Acts
Minister Pia Glover Rolle – Minister of Labour and the Public Service – MP for Golden Isles NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Minister of Labour and the Public Service the Hon. Pia Glover said stakeholders and members of the public were gathered at the...

‘HR Law amendments will help promote work environment’
Hanane Djoua Doha In a landmark step toward modernizing public governance, Qatar has unveiled a series of sweeping reforms designed to elevate efficiency, reward performance, and deepen collaboration between the public and private sectors. This...

Randy Tallman, The Stow Company: Insights from a Wood Industry Market Leader
Randy Tallman, executive vice president & COO of The Stow Company Randy Tallman’s career in the closets and home organization industry didn’t start in the executive suite, but on the front lines, as a B2B customer of The Stow Company during a time...

New UT San Antonio program offers job training for people with autism, disabilities
White tablecloths, flower arrangements, polished dining trays and servers filling plates and carrying drinks around the room — the things that filled the ZerNona Black Multigenerational Community Center could have been laid out for a black tie...

Federal shutdown leaves HR teams without critical labor market insights
As the federal shutdown drags on, HR leaders may be operating in the dark when it comes to market data. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics shuttered during the impasse, the agency’s latest jobs report was suspended, forcing employers to rely on...

Merging HR and IT? Why it’s a ‘senseless’ endeavor
A month or so ago, the buzz was about whether HR and IT functions could—and possibly should—merge. It sounds like a bad idea—because it is. Each of the two have so many separate tasks where there is no overlap. Trying to put them together would be...

Tim Robinson’s ‘The Chair Company’ Is the Year’s Most Bonkers Comedy
The Chair Company is, in many respects, the ultimate Tim Robinson vehicle: a collection of the star’s favorite fixations that invariably devolves into deranged, hostile madness. Although an eight-episode half-hour HBO mystery series, Robinson’s...

Local employer weighs in on E-Verify order
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids works with hundreds of immigrants and refugees each year, making sure they have the proper documents in place to find jobs in eastern Iowa. Following the arrest of the former...
Walters’ Former Chief of Staff Departs
OKLAHOMA CITY — Former state Superintendent Ryan Walters’ chief of staff, who faced accusations of creating a hostile work environment, is gone from the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The agency confirmed Thursday morning the departure of...

Employment Litigation Roundup: September 2025
FTC retreats from broad non-compete ban but signals increased case-by-case scrutiny of non-competes will continue On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) voluntarily dismissed its appeal in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...

AI With Empathy For Humans
Robot and young woman face to face. getty Whether it’s nu-metal arias like Metallica’s “Spit out the Bone,” or film masterpieces illustrating the prospect of a post-human world, or a human resources memo showing the redundancy of human employees,...

HR business partner at ComEd can’t move forward with bias claims, court says
A senior HR business partner for ComEd, an electric utility provider in Illinois, lacked sufficient evidence to bring her discrimination and retaliation charges to trial, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois determined...

Amir amends provisions of Civil Human Resources Law, ratifies Cabinet's decision to amend provisions of its executive regulations
DOHA: His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has issued Law No. 25 of 2025 amending some provisions of the Civil Human Resources Law issued by Law No. 15 of 2016. His Highness the Amir also ratified Cabinet...

UnitedHealthcare, Ascension Wisconsin stalemate; HR departments scrambling
"Unaffordable and unprecedented," that's how human resource experts are describing the dilemma between Ascension and UnitedHealthcare and now, HR departments are scrambling. MILWAUKEE - "Unaffordable and unprecedented," that's how human resource...

TCS layoffs: Chief HR opens up on figures circulating amid restructuring exercise - ‘Not factual, extremely exaggerated’
TCS layoffs: India's largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal, on Thursday, 9 October 2025, said that the company has ‘released’ 1% or 6,000 employees as part of its restructuring exercise. “As we speak...

Threat Actors Mimic as HR Departments to Steal Your Gmail Login Credentials
A sophisticated phishing campaign has emerged targeting job seekers through legitimate Zoom document-sharing features, demonstrating how cybercriminals exploit trusted platforms to harvest Gmail credentials. The attack leverages social engineering...

Walters’ former chief of staff out at Oklahoma State Department of Education
OKLAHOMA CITY — Former state Superintendent Ryan Walters’ chief of staff, who faced accusations of creating a hostile work environment, is gone from the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The agency confirmed Thursday morning the departure of...
TCS layoffs: Headcount reduces by 20,000 in Q2 FY26, CHRO says 6,000 let go
Only 1%, or 6,000 people, have been affected by TCS layoffs, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal said on Thursday, but the factsheets of the company’s latest quarterly results tell a different story altogether. TCS layoffs are being seen as one of...

Ryan Specialty promotes pair to co-president positions
Ryan Specialty Holdings has announced that Steve Keogh, chief operating officer, and Brendan Mulshine, chief revenue officer, have been appointed to the additional roles of co-presidents of Ryan Specialty. In their roles, Keogh and Mulshine will...