In the midst of the multiple executive orders issued in the first days of the Trump administration, on 23 January 2025, the White House issued an executive order entitled Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial...more
On 23 December 2024, Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione (R-Tarrant County) filed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (the Act), adding Texas to the list of states seeking to regulate artificial intelligence...more
On 16 October 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a comprehensive guidance regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in employment....more
12/27/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Discrimination ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Transparency
As employers explore ways to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the bounds of existing and emerging legislation and guidance, and as government agencies, states, and municipalities seek to regulate AI in employment and...more
On 29 June 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, and reversed the longstanding rule that race can be considered as a plus factor among...more
Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, most notably with respect to...more
2/21/2023
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employees ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Nurse Practitioners ,
Pay Data ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Telehealth ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The impact of COVID-19 on the health care industry can hardly be overstated. Numerous important employment law developments occurred in 2020 related to COVID-19 that impacted the industry, including guidance on mandatory...more
2/16/2021
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Liability ,
Public Health ,
Racial Bias ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Telemedicine ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage-Fixing ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
Workplace Safety
2019 brought continuing changes to employment law issues affecting the health care industry. The following Alert — prepared by K&L Gates’ collaborative team of employment lawyers dedicated to serving health care industry...more
1/29/2020
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Drug Testing ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Home Healthcare Workers ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Over-Time ,
Physicians ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Violence