Tag: North America

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a bid by unions to block President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to engage ...

A new survey of U.S. hiring managers conducted by Sunlight suggests weight discrimination continues to influence hiring, pay, and promotion decisions across industries — raising new questions about equity as ...

A decline in fully remote job postings could restrict access to work for disabled people and complicate efforts to reduce economic inactivity, according to new research from Lancaster University’s Work ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits increased slightly last week and the unemployment rate appeared to hold steady in February amid a stable labor market. The ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday moved to scrap a rule long opposed by business groups that made it harder to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees, who ...

Mexico has approved a bill to gradually reduce the workweek from 48 to 40 hours, although the reform, expected to be implemented from next year, increases weekly overtime and maintains ...

Investors' and economists' concerns that artificial intelligence will upend established industries are deepening, as Goldman Sachs warned on Tuesday that accelerating AI adoption could push U.S. unemployment higher this year, ...

The shift to a skills-first job market is accelerating as AI completely changes how companies hire and promote. Employers are placing less weight on traditional résumés and formal credentials and ...

An imagined dystopia of mass unemployment fuelled by artificial intelligence, highlighted in Citrini Research's now viral report, has unsettled global markets, where a recent huge bet on the technology is ...

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Tuesday he doesn’t expect the adoption of artificial intelligence technology to totally upend the job market in the U.S. ‘I’m not a doom ...