The California Civil Rights Council has finally secured approval for its long-awaited regulations regarding employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and other automated decision systems. The agency says the...more
7/7/2025
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Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Emerging Technologies ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Policies ,
FEHA ,
Final Rules ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Machine Learning ,
New Regulations ,
Regulatory Requirements
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate nearly unanimously voted to remove a proposed ten-year ban that sought to restrict states and municipalities from enacting or enforcing laws and regulations related to artificial intelligence...more
7/2/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Federal Bans ,
Moratorium ,
New Regulations ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Reform ,
State and Local Government ,
Trump Administration
On June 2, 2025, the California Senate approved a bill, called the “No Robo Bosses Act,” that would restrict when and how employers can use automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to make...more
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that employees who are part of a majority group do not have a higher evidentiary standard to prove workplace discrimination. ...more
The Trump administration plans to completely eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and transfer the agency’s remaining authority to enforce protections in federal contractors for veterans and...more
6/5/2025
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disability ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
OFCCP ,
Opinion Letter ,
Trump Administration ,
Veterans ,
VETS ,
Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA)
On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened the platform for employers to submit EEO-1 reports. In doing so, EEOC Acting Director Andrea Lucas warned employers not to use the data to take...more
On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection filing platform with a hard deadline for all filings of 11:00 p.m. (EDT) on June 24, 2025....more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) calling for an end to disparate impact liability for discrimination and ordering federal enforcement agencies to stop enforcement of antidiscrimination...more
On April 11, 2025, a federal judge for the U.S. Western District of Pennsylvania reversed his recent decision to dismiss a disability discrimination claim from a job applicant with a medical marijuana card who alleged he had...more
On April 11, 2025, a group of forty Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer urging her to “abandon plans to dismantle [the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs] and reaffirm...more
4/17/2025
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Labor Reform ,
New Legislation ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Rules
On April 15, 2025, a group of former U.S. Department of Labor officials issued an “open letter” urging federal contractors to continue voluntary diversity practices, including conducting self-assessments, despite the Trump...more
4/16/2025
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Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
OFCCP ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
A Pennsylvania federal court recently ruled that a job applicant who had a job offer rescinded could not allege disability discrimination under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) for medical marijuana use as a matter...more
The California Civil Rights Council has advanced new regulations regarding employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making systems, clearing the way for them to take effect later this year. ...more
4/10/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Automation Systems ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Collection ,
Employment Discrimination ,
FEHA ,
Final Rules ,
Machine Learning ,
New Regulations ,
Trump Administration
On April 3, 2025, a group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) officials issued a statement defending specific employer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in response to technical...more
On March 27, 2025, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from enforcing portions of two provisions in President Donald Trump’s...more
On February 28, 2025, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed legislation making the state the first to remove antidiscrimination protections for gender identity from its civil rights code....more
3/4/2025
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Discrimination ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Protection ,
Gender Identity ,
Governor Reynolds ,
LGBTQ ,
State Labor Laws ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On March 3, 2025, a federal judge in Maryland refused to halt a preliminary injunction blocking key parts of two of President Donald Trump’s executive orders (EO) seeking to eliminate “illegal” diversity, equity, and...more
3/4/2025
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Due Process ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
Fifth Amendment ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Motion To Stay ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Trump Administration
Executive Order (EO) 14173 “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” creates new obligations that could carry significant risks for any organization doing business with the United States federal...more
2/13/2025
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Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Subcontractors ,
Whistleblowers
The Trump administration is facing a new legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive orders (EOs) to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives after a group of diversity officers,...more
2/11/2025
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Civil Rights Act ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Executive Orders ,
First Amendment ,
Pending Litigation
During the first two weeks in office, President Donald Trump’s administration released many policies impacting employers in areas like immigration, labor, and workplace safety, and reshaping federal regulatory and enforcement...more
2/6/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Citizenship ,
Colleges ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Gender Identity ,
Immigration Procedures ,
LGBTQ ,
NLRB ,
Tariffs ,
Title IX ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
Universities ,
Visas ,
Workplace Safety
On January 28, 2025, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea R. Lucas rolled back much of the EEOC’s Biden-era guidance related to issues of gender identity discrimination and harassment...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel (GC) has issued a memorandum explaining her view on how employers can balance compliance with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and equal employment opportunity...more
On January 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the New York Reproductive Health Bias Law’s requirement that New York State employers include a notice in their employee handbooks regarding the...more
A wave of new state legislation ready to take effect on January 1, 2025, will reshape employment law across the United States, introducing crucial updates on paid family leave, anti-discrimination protections, workplace...more
12/31/2024
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Child Labor ,
Compliance ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Medical Marijuana ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Reproductive Discrimination ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Employment discrimination against individuals with or perceived to have family caregiving responsibilities will soon be unlawful in Illinois under a law set to take effect on January 1, 2025....more