HR in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the business of HR: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Employment law and rulings, the labor market and layoffs, benefits and comp, and the workplace and HR-tech shifts changing how companies hire, pay and manage people. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For CHROs, people and talent leaders, and the teams building the function. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.
Instacart's $5M Hiring Settlement, and a Board Without a Quorum
Instacart will pay $5 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that its PERM sponsorship pipeline disadvantaged US applicants, with three years of conduct relief attached; the company disputes the allegations. The Supreme Court declined to hear Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to her removal from the NLRB, leaving removal protections and the Board's quorum unresolved. Also: Greenhouse finds at least four in five job seekers across five countries were rejected last year without speaking to anyone, and Indeed data shows large employers favoring part-time hires over seasonal ones.
20 Oct 2026
Hiring-Test Rulebook Heads to the White House
Bloomberg Law reports the EEOC's final rule rescinding the 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures reached White House regulatory review on October 16th, which would pull the decades-old framework for validating hiring tests out of the federal rulebook. Reuters reports the Supreme Court declined to hear ousted NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox's appeal of her removal, leaving the firing in place without a ruling on its legality, and HR Dive reports a split panel held a Catholic nonprofit must face a suit over terminating benefits for an employee's same-sex spouse. Also: HR Grapevine USA reports Accenture disputes a claim that it capped employee AI spending amid reports of roughly $1,000 in monthly bills per employee, and the EEOC has sued BNSF Railway over the firing of a laborer with a genetic connective tissue disorder.
19 Oct 2026
Judge Leaves the Contractor DEI Order in Place
A federal judge declined to block the March executive order on diversity programs at federal contractors, and HR Dive reports the court held the directive pertains only to conduct already prohibited by federal law. Also in the brief: Mondaq Business Briefing on recent rulings keeping Section 10(j) injunctions an extraordinary remedy, a $1.6 million verdict against Norfolk Southern over a fitness-for-duty dispute, and a magistrate's refusal to dismiss a former EEOC official's discrimination suit. Personnel Today reports the UK government and Serious Fraud Office are consulting on US-style financial rewards for economic-crime whistleblowers.
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