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Lathrop GPM

[Event] 2025 Employment & Labor Law Seminar – Kansas City Area - September 30th, Overland Park, KS

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Join us for our annual Employment & Labor Law Seminar taking place on Tuesday, September 30. The seminar will address current issues and recent developments in employment and labor law. Session highlights include: -...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

The New Face of Workplace Surveillance

Employers have begun utilizing biometric data collection methods, such as face recognition technology, as tools for workplace surveillance. Leveraging AI and assisted technology for surveying employees has become more...more

Lerch, Early & Brewer

Are You Watching Your Workers? What Employers Need to Know About Employee Surveillance

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As surveillance technology becomes cheaper, more powerful, and more widely used, many companies want to monitor productivity through surveillance to protect confidential information and ensure compliance with company...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Workplace Recordings and Eavesdropping: Limiting Criminal and Legal Liabilities

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The ubiquity of smartphones and sensitive security cameras have made audio recording in the workplace more common. Some may be accidental, while other recordings may be intentional attempts document workplace conversations...more

McGlinchey Stafford

NLRB General Counsel Already Instituting Changes

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) can change subject to political whims – particularly since the President appoints the agency’s board members and the Office of the General Counsel. Interestingly, on January 25,...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Navigating Use of Generative AI at Work: Best Practices and Legal Considerations

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool that employees increasingly rely on for a variety of tasks. From drafting emails and producing reports to...more

Fisher Phillips

Top 5 Things Employers Need to Know About the EU’s Latest AI Guidance

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The European Union just provided much-needed clarity on what’s prohibited under its landmark EU AI Act, releasing guidance earlier this week on how businesses can comply with the law right as it begins to take effect across...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

A Primer on AI Issues in the Workplace - Part 1

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Employers that use tracking technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor workers and make employment decisions may now have one more thing to worry about—the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)....more

Fisher Phillips

Top 6 Employer Takeaways From New EEOC Wearable Tech Guidance

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Wearable technologies are becoming increasingly common in the workplace, but a new guidance document from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made it clear that employers need to tread carefully. From smart...more

Littler

EEOC Fact Sheet on Wearable Technologies Indicates Growing Concern Over Employee Monitoring

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On December 19, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its new fact sheet, “Wearables in the Workplace: Using Wearable Technologies Under Federal Employment Discrimination Laws,” which provides...more

Payne & Fears

[Webinar] New CA Employment Laws 2025: Are You Prepared? - December 4th, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm PT

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Join us for a lively discussion of critical year-end updates for California employers. We will address new legislation and key case rulings. Topics include: - Key bills relating to freelance workers, “captive audience”...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

CFPB Circular Targets Workplace Monitoring Tools

On October 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a circular titled “Background Dossiers and Algorithmic Scores for Hiring, Promotion, and Other Employment Decisions.” In essence, the circular...more

A&O Shearman

EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on employee surveillance and biometric in the workplace

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This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of data...more

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EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on AI

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This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of data...more

Fisher Phillips

AI Programs in Japan are Forcing Workers to Smile More – Would That Work in the U.S.?

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A Japanese supermarket chain is getting attention for implementing an AI tool called “Mr. Smile” that monitors workers for the quality and quantity of their smiles when interacting with customers, raising questions around the...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Employee Work Monitoring

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Perhaps at no time in modern history have employers seemingly had less of a grip on their workforce. The amorphous, pre-COVID, practices of “flex time” and work-from-home have been stretched and snapped back to a point of...more

Fisher Phillips

3 AI Bills in Congress for Employers to Track: Proposed Laws Target Automated Systems, Workplace Surveillance, And More

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Employers that use artificial intelligence – and developers that create AI systems – could be subject to extensive new laws under several bills introduced by federal legislators. While much of the existing legal landscape on...more

K&L Gates LLP

Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers 101

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance for employers on monitoring workers lawfully, transparently and fairly. The guidance aims to protect workers’ data protection rights and help...more

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New York Lawmakers Aim to Close Loopholes in NYC’s AI Bias Audit Law and Add Teeth to Workplace Protections

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At least two proposed bills pending before the New York State Legislature would force employers to conduct bias audits and provide high levels of transparency if they use AI-fueled automated employment decision tools for...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Less Is More When It Comes to Employee Monitoring

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With the increase in remote work, employers’ concerns over the security of proprietary company information and employee productivity have increased their reliance on technologies to manage and monitor employees....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

A Long-Term, Part-Time Employee or a Former Long-Term, Part-Time Employee, That Is the Question

In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Under the SECURE...more

Ius Laboris

Korean employees justified in covering security cameras

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The Korean Supreme Court has held that employees were justified in covering security cameras that had been installed without proper consultation....more

Hogan Lovells

Employment in the news | October 2023

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After a fairly quiet summer period, there were developments on several fronts in October. The new duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment became law, although is not yet in force. The Supreme Court...more

Ius Laboris

Can employers monitor their employees’ social media posts?

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Increasingly, employers are being made aware of employee misconduct that is evidenced by photos, videos or other social media posts. What are employers allowed to do when it comes to their employees' posts, what are the...more

BCLP

UK HR Two Minute Monthly: October 2023

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Our October update includes a significant Supreme Court decision on how to treat historic underpayments of holiday pay, a preliminary tribunal hearing on whether a belief in race equality that opposed critical race theory was...more

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