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Another Employer Faces AI Hiring Bias Lawsuit: 10 Actions You Can Take to Prevent AI Litigation

Fisher Phillips on 8/18/2025

An unsuccessful job applicant is suing Sirius XM Radio in federal court, claiming the company’s AI-powered hiring tool discriminated against him based on his race. Filed on August 4 in the Eastern District of Michigan, the...more

AI Screening Systems Face Fresh Scrutiny: 6 Key Takeaways From Claims Filed Against Hiring Technology Company

Fisher Phillips on 3/28/2025

A Deaf, Indigenous woman claims an employer’s use of a popular automated video interview platform unfairly blocked her promotion due to AI-driven biases related to her disability and race. The ACLU filed charges on March 19...more

New California Labor and Employment Laws for 2025

Vedder Price on 12/20/2024

Every new year brings yuletide greetings, holiday festivities and, as sure as taxes, new California employment laws passed by the California Legislature and approved by the Governor. A brief summary of the most significant of...more

New Study Shows AI Resume Screeners Prefer White Male Candidates: Your 5-Step Blueprint to Prevent AI Discrimination in Hiring

Fisher Phillips on 11/12/2024

A new study reveals that popular AI-based resume screening tools often favor White and male candidates, showing that resumes tied to White-associated names were preferred 85% of the time. The University of Washington...more

Hot Topics: AI and ESG

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/1/2024

The US Government Is Using AI To Detect Potential Wrongdoing, and Companies Should Too With agencies such as the SEC and DOJ using AI and other data analytics tools extensively to detect wrongdoing, companies need to adopt...more

What Employers Need to Know about the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision

Paul Hastings LLP on 7/6/2023

Federal law governing affirmative action and non-discrimination in employment is unaffected by the Supreme Court’s highly publicized affirmative action decision published June 29, 2023. Still, the decision is sure to...more

The Slippery Road Toward Immigration Reform Under President Biden: Beware of ICE!

Fisher Phillips on 5/26/2021

President Biden has proposed sweeping changes to U.S. immigration law, contained in the pending U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. This piece of proposed legislation, as introduced into Congress by the bill’s lead sponsors, Sen....more

[Virtual Event] Employment Practices Liability Insurance - January 26th - 28th, 10:15 am - 4:15 pm EST

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 11/11/2020

29th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance - ACI’s 29th Annual Employment Practices Liability Insurance conference returns on January 26-28, 2021 in an interactive, virtual format! This yearly conference is the...more

11th Circuit Clean Sweep for Pilgrim's Pride Corporation on FMLA and ADA Claims Due to Alleged Repetitive Injury

Burr & Forman on 6/2/2020

On June 1, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals entered an unpublished, per curiam decision affirming the grant of summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville division...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.8.2020 | Top Story: Speaker Company Sonos Sues Google for Patent Infringement

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/8/2020

Home speaker maker Sonos has sued Google, accusing the company of “infringing on five of its patents, including technology that lets wireless speakers connect and synchronize with one another.” Sonos had originally partnered...more

Failure To Hire Due To “Jewish Blood” May Constitute Race Discrimination Under Title VII

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 8/2/2018

A federal magistrate in the Western District of Louisiana has issued what appears to be the first ruling under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that someone who is Jewish may be protected from race discrimination...more

New Mexico Supreme Court Rejects a Heightened Evidentiary Burden on a Plaintiff in a Reverse Race Discrimination Case

Littler on 3/14/2018

In Garcia v. Hatch Valley Public Schools, the New Mexico Supreme Court recently examined whether a plaintiff has a relatively heightened evidentiary burden in proving a reverse discrimination claim brought under the New...more

Mo’Nique’s Plight is not Unique – Pay Equity and Race

Fisher Phillips on 2/2/2018

Tinseltown stars have always had a special place in our hearts. Their portrayals of characters brought to life from our favorite books or screenplays so often teach us lessons about ourselves, life, and those around us. What...more

Employers Take Note: Seventh Circuit Widens Scope of EEOC's Right to Investigate

Baker Donelson on 9/12/2017

Earlier this month, in EEOC v. Union Pacific Railroad, No. 15-3452, F.3d (7th Cir. Aug. 15, 2017), the Seventh Circuit issued a decision regarding the scope of the EEOC's right to investigate. It determined that neither the...more

Still Cookin’ In California Court: Bakery Employer Survives EEOC Motion For Summary Judgment

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/26/2016

In what has become an oft-used recipe in the EEOC cookbook of Title VII retaliation litigation, the government has once again utilized the strategy of taking an employer’s deposition and thereafter moving for summary...more

Recent EEOC Settlements A Reminder That Employers Face Substantial Liability If Pre-Employment Exams Are Not Job-Related

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 10/8/2015

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been very aggressive in challenging pre-employment exams. Employers utilize an array of pre-employment exams to assess an employee/applicant’s physical fitness,...more

EEOC Criminal Background Check Cases Come With Big Price Tags for All Parties

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/6/2015

One of the EEOC's top priorities has been ensuring individuals are not discriminated against based on their criminal histories. In recent years, it has filed multiple headline-grabbing lawsuits related to background checks...more

Can Employees Trust Human Resources?

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 8/24/2015

After the initial NYT story ran, saying the workplace at Amazon is cutthroat — still uses “forced rankings” and even encourages employees to secretly bad-mouth each other to their bosses, has employees who break down in tears...more

Second Circuit Clarifies Pleading Standard for Title VII Claims

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 8/7/2015

A Second Circuit panel recently revived a former employee’s racial discrimination suit against New York City, reversing in part the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of her case. In Littlejohn v. City of New York,...more

Employment Law 101: Sex Discrimination

Gray Reed on 4/22/2015

Who does it apply to: The law applies to all employers with 15 or more employees. What is the issue: Title VII was passed in the 1960s to protect against discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national...more

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