Tag: North America

New York employers will need to rethink how they structure job agreements heading into 2026. A new state law signed in December bans employment clauses that require workers to repay ...

The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.  Google and Verizon ...

Predictions abound about which jobs will be automated by AI — but contrary to popular belief, a tech takeover isn’t in full swing yet. In an end-of-year note to investors, ...

The GDP number arrived just before Christmas, wrapped like good news.  The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, blowing past economists’ expectations and delivering ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to bar state laws on artificial intelligence that he says slow innovation will face political and legal opposition from states seeking to preserve ...

Most Canadian employees favor a hybrid schedule that balances office and remote work, according to a recent survey by Indeed, reports Benefits Canada. The poll of more than 1,000 full-time ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week, consistent with a low level of layoffs, but the unemployment rate likely remained high in December ...

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the largest U.S. business lobby group to President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, ...

As Instagram employees join the millions of workers who were slapped with a return-to-office mandate in 2025, remote work is fast becoming a status symbol. Sander van ’t Noordende, the ...

The exact number of years of saving it would take for the average worker to claw out of the middle-class bracket has been revealed — and it’s nearly half a ...