The number of striking United Auto Workers members increased to more than 40,000 Monday as a 6,800-person strike began at Stellantis' highly profitable Ram 1500 pickup truck factory in Sterling Heights, Mich. This is the first time since the strike started six weeks ago that Stellantis, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. have been targeted simultaneously.

Offering "across-the-board" exit packages when trimming your staff may tempt your best employees to bolt, so take time beforehand to identify them (they could be well below your executive level), find ways to communicate how vital they are and offer them a chance to develop their skills, write leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith and Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management professor Kelly Goldsmith. "They may not be your company's most important contributors today, but they may well be in the future," they write.

Empathetic leadership is about understanding workers and using that knowledge strategically to drive the best employee experience, and should not been seen as a weakness, writes Lively Paradox CEO Nicole Price. "[A] workforce that feels understood will help the leaders build a successful business," Price writes, which is why leaders must "strengthen their empathy muscle."

A KFF analysis showed more than 9 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage while about 16.3 million had their coverage renewed during the redetermination process in 50 states and Washington D.C. as of Oct. 19. About 72% were dropped from the program due to procedural reasons, and children accounted for 39% of disenrollment rates in the 20 states reporting age breakouts.

The Honest Co.'s Carla Vernon joins other Black women who serve as CEOs in emphasizing the need for increased representation in leadership, explaining, "When I was young, I was really marked by the experience of having talented, brilliant, bright, charismatic, powerful Black women to look up to in a work setting."