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Smart decisions?: How to detect and prevent bias in AI

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More and more companies are using artificial intelligence to streamline processes such as recruitment, performance analysis, marketing, identity verification or customer service. These tools allow you to automate data-driven...more

Oppenheimer Investigations Group

Understanding Unconscious Biases in Workplace Investigations

Unconscious biases, including implicit and cognitive biases, are pervasive in our daily lives and can significantly impact our decisions, even when we strive to be fair and objective. For workplace investigators, recognizing...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Executive Agencies Confirm Demise of OFCCP and Identify Private Sector Enforcement Targets

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Labor released their 2026 Congressional Budget Justifications (CBJ) on May 30, 2025, providing valuable information related to the EEOC’s enforcement...more

Maynard Nexsen

Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 48: Opportunities & Risks with Artificial Intelligence in HR with...

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Recorded at the 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference, Tina and Keely sit down with Chingwei Shieh, Executive Leader of Automation & Data Science at GE Power. Chingwei, who kicked off the conference with his keynote on “Harnessing...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Disparate Impact Under Fire: What EO 14281 Means for Equal Opportunity

Since the 1970s, federal civil rights statutes—and many state analogues—have imposed liability for ‘disparate impact’: when facially neutral policies disproportionately harm protected groups. Liability can attach even without...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Attending to EEOC’s New Workplace Focus: Antisemitism on College Campuses

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas issued a statement on March 17, 2025, notifying universities and colleges that the EEOC intends to hold them accountable for antisemitism in on-campus...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

AI Use in Employment Decisions

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In this episode, host Megan Monson talks with Amy C. Schwind from Lowenstein's Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits practice group about AI's growing role in human resources processes and employment decisions. They...more

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EEOC Investigates 20 Private Law Firms Questioning Their DEI-Related Employment Practices

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On March 17, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas sent letters to 20 large law firms requesting information about their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) related employment practices. The letters express the EEOC’s suspicions...more

Oppenheimer Investigations Group

Key Insights for Impartial Investigations: Can One be Opinionated and Unbiased at the Same Time?

People, including investigators, have opinions, but that doesn’t necessarily get in the way of doing impartial investigations into school or workplace claims of misconduct, which often center around sensitive issues such as...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Advising Employers as AI Meets DEI and Discrimination

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This article provides guidance and best practices for counseling employers on key employment discrimination and diversity, equity and inclusion-related legal issues associated with using artificial intelligence tools. ...more

Ankura

The Hidden Influence: How Culture Shapes Workplace Investigations

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The typical 40-hour workweek, small teams, workload pressures, and frequent interactions can build intimate working relationships, mirroring those of domestic ones. But alongside the benefits, these working relationships can...more

Fenwick & West LLP

CLE Takeaways: Employment Law Updates Businesses Should Know for 2025

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In 2024, we witnessed a wave of transformative changes in employment laws, from expanded leave protections and new paid leave mandates to increased pay transparency requirements for employers....more

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Calling the Right DEI Play for the NFL

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Today's Wall Street Journal story about Roger Goodell's decision to maintain the NFL's DEI programs reported that Mr. Goodell stood by the football league’s diversity initiatives, which would not change in response to the...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your February To-Do List

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially given the rapid pace at which the White House acted in the first days of President Trump’s second term. In order to ensure you stay on...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

The DEI Stalemate: Paying the Price for the Wrong Move - Part 2

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Part 2 of The DEI Stalemate builds on the lessons learned in the first session, focusing on practical strategies for implementing successful DEI initiatives without legal missteps. Attorneys X. Lightfoot, Avery Locklear, and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New Jersey AG Says Anti-Discrimination Law Covers Algorithmic Discrimination

Last week, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced new guidance that the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) applies to algorithmic discrimination, i.e., when automated systems treat people differently...more

Cozen O'Connor

Democratic AGs Pen Letter Opposing Walmart’s Decision to End Diversity Initiatives

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A group of 13 Democratic AGs wrote a letter to Walmart’s President and CEO expressing concern about Walmart’s announcement that it will end certain aspects of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

New Jersey Attorney General: NJ’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) Applies to Automated Decision-Making Tools

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This month, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office (NJAG) added to nationwide efforts to regulate, or at least clarify the application of existing law, in this case the NJ Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. § 10:5-1 et...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

New Study Shows Gen Z LGBTQIA+ Students, Graduates Value, Seek Out Inclusive Workplaces

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Employers that foster a culture of belonging for all employees will have an advantage as Gen Z is projected to make up 27% of the workforce by 2025 and their expectations will change the workplace as we know it. Born between...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

What Issues is EEOC Flagging for Systemic Cases? EEOC Tells Employers in New Strategic Enforcement Plan.

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EEOC makes no secret as to the policies and practices most likely to trigger systemic action. Indeed, since 2012, EEOC has issued official Strategic Enforcement Plans as a framework for focusing its efforts on areas that...more

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EEOC Releases Strategic Enforcement Plan

Plan Sets Forth Agency’s Priorities for Fiscal Years 2024 - 2028 - WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for Fiscal Years 2024 –2028. The...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Workplace Diversity Efforts Remain Legal But Face Increased Scrutiny in Wake of Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision

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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous ruling this summer on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, many companies may wonder what it means for their affirmative action and Diversity, Equity and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Unconscious Bias and Netflix's Partner Track - Hiring to Firing Podcast

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Most companies know that they can't demote or fire an employee because of their race or religion. But how can companies avoid making decisions based on unconscious bias? Partners Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs sat down with...more

Fenwick & West LLP

[Webinar] Strategies and Tools to Interrupt Harmful Bias - January 10th, 1:00 pm PT

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This session will focus on how to interrupt biases that can have harmful or unintended disparate impacts in everyday life and in the workplace. Elimination of Bias, while a catchy and often used title, is not possible. No...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Proving reverse bias: Tough, but not impossible

Two recent court decisions shed some light. Two decisions in reverse discrimination cases came down this week from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In one case, a three-judge panel found in favor of the...more

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