A bill introduced in the New York State Senate on August 4, 2023, would impose statewide requirements regulating tools that incorporate artificial intelligence to assist in employee monitoring and the employment...more
The second webinar in our series, “Employment Issues in Generative AI,” explored the evolving impact of generative AI (or “GAI”) on the workplace and how employers can work to ensure the ethical and responsible use of AI...more
New York City will begin enforcing the New York City Automated Employment Decision Tools (“AEDT”) Law, on July 5, 2023, delaying the previously announced enforcement date of April 15.
On April 6, 2023, after two sets of...more
4/10/2023
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
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Labor Reform ,
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State Labor Laws
On Friday, September 23rd, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) issued a Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Rules related to Local Law 144 (“the Law”), which...more
As we have previously reported (here, here and here), there are novel risks associated with employer use of AI tools in the workplace. While such tools have caught the attention of the EEOC and state and local legislatures,...more
As previously reported, employers’ use of artificial intelligence to assist in employment decision-making is being subjected to ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny at all levels of government―local, state, and federal. In the...more
On Friday, September 23rd, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued a Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Rules (“Proposed Rules”) related to Local Law 144 (“the Law”),...more
Employers are more frequently relying on the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) tools to automate employment decision-making, such as software that can review resumes and “chatbots” that interview and screen job...more
On October 28, 2021, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows announced that the agency is launching an initiative to ensure that artificial intelligence (“AI”) used at all stages of the...more
As previously discussed here, the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace has drawn scrutiny from regulatory bodies and activist groups who have expressed concern that such technology may not neutrally screen...more
3/11/2020
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Bias ,
City Councils ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Machine Learning ,
Notice Requirements ,
NYHRL ,
Proposed Legislation ,
State Regulators
New Jersey’s so-called “ban the box” law took effect on March 1, preventing most employers in the State from asking about a prospective employee’s criminal history on the initial job application and until after the first...more
2014 Year in Review—the Top 10 Trends in New Jersey Employment Law -
2014 was another busy year for developments in New Jersey employment law. This newsletter examines noteworthy developments in ten key...more
1/2/2015
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Background Checks ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Discrimination ,
Ebola ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Sick Leave ,
State of Emergency ,
Wage and Hour ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies
Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to address whether to uphold a provision in a job application that limited the time in which an employee could sue the company to no more than 6 months after an alleged adverse...more
Pennsylvania, like many states, has restricted employer use of criminal history in hiring and other employment decisions. Under the Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA), Pennsylvania employers may “consider”...more
Governor Christie has signed The Opportunity to Compete Act, which takes effect March 1, 2015 and prevents many private employers in the State of New Jersey from asking prospective employees about their criminal history on...more
In Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Co., Inc., No. A-4329-12T3, 2014 WL 2765273 (App. Div. June 19, 2014), New Jersey's Appellate Division upheld a provision in a job application that limited the time in which an employee...more