California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Compliance Tip of the Day: Podcasting for Compliance Training
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance Training Frequency
Compliance Tip of the Day: Using Supply Chain to Innovate in Compliance
Innovation in Compliance: Innovative Approaches to Compliance and Training with Catherine Choe
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 46: The 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference with Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth of GSHRM
Compliance tip of the Day: Communication Through Persuasion
Compliance Tip of the Day: Middle Managers as the Eyes and Ears of Compliance
Joe Green & Monica Rodriguez Kuniyoshi on Integrating Generative AI with Your Experts - Passle CMO Series Podcast RE-RELEASE:
Compliance Tip of the Day – Role of Chatbots in Compliance
FCPA Compliance Report: Kristy Grant-Hart on A 360° Review of the Future of Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day: Embedded Compliance
A Blueprint for Efficient SRRs: Mastering Your Subject Rights Workflow
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 496: The Early BigLaw Recruiting Timeline (w/Sadie Jones)
Whistleblower Challenges and Employer Responses: One-on-One with Alex Barnard
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance By Design
Podcast - Parting Thoughts: Be a "Peddler of Common Sense"
Podcast - How to Use Humor and Anger Effectively in the Courtroom
Podcast - At Trial, Less Is More
Enhancing Workplace Feedback: Lessons From Harry Potter — Hiring to Firing Podcast
The Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of Spirit AeroSystems in a discrimination case related to a 2013 reduction-in-force (RIF). The plaintiffs had alleged that the company targeted older workers in a...more
In October 2024, the Department of Labor released its principles and best practices for developers and employers using AI (pdf), aiming to provide employers with guidelines to promote workplace augmentation through the use of...more
The New Jersey Appellate Division issued a decision which sheds light on the issue of whether an employee’s sexual harassment of a third-party (non-employee) could subject the employer to liability under the New Jersey Law...more
On October 30, 2023, the White House released an Executive Order for Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (EO), which outlines a sweeping plan for encouraging the development and managing the risks of...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already a key feature in many people’s lives, including at work. While some AI platforms have been around for years, highly advanced intelligence platforms, such as ChatGPT, could become...more
Faced with an ongoing public health emergency that threatens to overload healthcare systems, many states, including California, have developed or revisited their crisis care guidelines to address a potential COVID-19 patient...more
Bias issues in AI decisionmaking have become increasingly problematic in recent years, as many companies increase the use of AI systems across their operations. On one hand, AI can help reduce the impact of human biases in...more
In Part One of this alert, we discussed several practical considerations that employers should bear in mind as they plan for the safe return of their employees to the workplace. Here, in Part Two, we explain how employers...more
The scenario happens all the time: Your engineering department has identified a need for more personnel who will work with export-controlled information. Management has approved the hiring, and your Human Resources manager...more
In the midst of our pandemic-induced self-isolation and, in many cases, mandatory shelter-in-place orders, some of you have probably used this time to better yourselves. Perhaps you’ve tried out some new recipes or began an...more
In this three-part series, we are exploring best practices for handling a charge of discrimination. The first part of the series addressed important preliminary questions you should be asking upon initial receipt of the...more
Employer reports of bigoted or inappropriate comments made by customers to employees or other patrons have become increasingly common for employers in all industries. In the healthcare industry, this often takes the form of a...more
The message from HUD is certainly confusing: don't discriminate, but use your discretion. It is enough to strike fear into the heart (and liability insurer) of even a seasoned property owner and manager. The common advice to...more
Despite the complexity of employment law and the speed with which the law, technology, and the workplace are changing, there are a few basic principles that capture the best advice we can give to employers. They’re not a...more
In Missouri, a 17-year-old student who was born male, but has identified as female since he was 13, chose to use the girls’ locker room during gym class. That decision sparked outrage in the school community and led to...more
With the federal government funded only through Sept. 30, 2015, unless Congress acts quickly, there is a reasonable likelihood of another government shutdown beginning Oct. 1, 2015. The looming shutdown will create...more
As we previously reported, New York City recently passed a law prohibiting employers from requesting or using an individual’s credit history in making employment decisions. On September 3, 2015—the same day that the new law...more
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination based on disability. Title III of the ADA requires that businesses provide accommodations to persons with disabilities and access that is equal or similar to...more
Time and time again, human resource professionals get blank stares when they ask managers for documentation supporting their strong desire to get rid of an employee they consider to be a poor performer. Not having prepared...more
Employers today can find themselves in a seemingly untenable dilemma when they have violence threaten to invade their workplaces. Two recent cases illustrate the competing liabilities that employers face in their...more
Yesterday, companion bills were introduced into the House and Senate seeking the passage of the Equality Act of 2015, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The...more
In a case that has implications for every employer and respondent on each charge in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) finds reasonable cause to support the allegations, the U.S. Supreme Court...more