NYC dismisses Haitian employees who lost their TPS status, Mamdani says

Newsday
This article cites a report by ILR’s Worker Institute, saying that New York state has 98,250 workers with Temporary Protected Status, with most coming from Haiti and Venezuela; the report is called “We Are Home: Workers with TPS Belong Here.”
NYC dismisses Haitian employees who lost their TPS status, Mamdani says

Veteran Economist, Insider Matsumoto Wins Senate Approval as BLS Commissioner

Reuters
Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on the significance of Brett Matsumoto’s appointment as the bureau’s new commissioner and on current political and financial challenges facing statistical agencies.
Veteran Economist, Insider Matsumoto Wins Senate Approval as BLS Commissioner

AI Is Giving Your HR Department an Existential Crisis

Bloomberg
“Employees want to know that there’s a trusted person that has expertise that they can go to and address issues, and they’re never going to feel fully confident in having a bot do it,” says JR Keller, ILR associate professor, discussing the value of human-powered HR departments.
AI Is Giving Your HR Department an Existential Crisis

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