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I have an employee who recently told HR he has autism. He didn’t ask for an accommodation but has been increasingly missing work. What can I do?

It’s summertime and the local high schools are out. With household budgets tight this year, chances are some of the older teens will be looking for a summer job.

Compare this approach with yours and see what improvements you can make.

We live and work in an increasingly uncivil environment. Discourse is coarser, insults fly quicker. And the predictable result has been a sharp increase in workplace harassment lawsuits and with them expensive settlements or runaway jury awards.

That decision may cost his employer hundreds of thousands of dollars – all because he wasn’t trained properly on making reasonable accommodations under the ADA.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has just published revised rules for employers who offer or want to offer their employees educational benefits like tuition reimbursement or employer provided student loan repayment assistance.

In a year that’s been marked by increasing layoffs and fears of artificial intelligence replacing human jobs, unions representing workers are still winning wage increases and better working conditions for those they represent.

When a reduction in force moves from discussion to action, the biggest risk isn’t the decision itself—it’s how it’s carried out.

Thanks to cooperation between the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Education (DOE), state plans now often include career and technical education programs in addition to traditional college education.

For the second time in one year, an employer has been sued because it fired a Black employee when it changed its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, allegedly to avoid being sued by the Trump administration for maintaining what the EEOC now sees as illegal reverse discrimination.