The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it ended its investigation into Circle K Stores relating to disability, pregnancy and retaliation discrimination charges after the convenience store chain agreed to pay $8 million to impacted employees. 

New York employers will not be allowed to retaliate against their employees who are lawfully absent from work under a new law taking effect February 19. So reports JD Supra.

Elon Musk’s conquest of Twitter has put a spotlight on employer/employee dynamics, but human resources leaders are not eager to emulate his controversial approach.

A lawsuit alleges that a human resources director of a Georgia county berated a former employee who complained of racial harassment from a co-worker by subjecting that employee “to additional, severe racial harassment in front of the employee who sent the racist text message,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.