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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings.  less -
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New AI Hiring Rules and Lawsuits Put Employers on Notice: What HR Needs to Know

Adam Bouka By Adam Bouka Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how companies find, evaluate, and hire talent—but it’s also raising red flags among regulators and courts. Two big developments in May 2025 show that HR...more

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AI in Job Postings: What Employers in Canada Need to Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the hiring landscape. Whether scanning resumes with machine learning tools or ranking candidates based on predictive models, employers in Canada may now want to ensure...more

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Discrimination Lawsuit Over Workday’s AI Hiring Tools Can Proceed as Class Action: 6 Things Employers Should Do After Latest Court...

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A federal judge just allowed a job applicant’s lawsuit against Workday to move forward as a nationwide class action, ruling that the company’s AI-powered hiring tools may have had a discriminatory impact on applicants over...more

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Labor Department Provides Employers with New 10-Step Roadmap to Avoid AI Hiring Discrimination

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Federal workplace officials just unveiled a new website guiding employers on best practices to avoid artificial intelligence discrimination during the hiring process, including a roadmap of 10 actions you should consider...more

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AI and HR: Navigating Legal Challenges in Recruiting and Hiring

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Using AI in HR - Hire or Hover? Hiring executives are asking if the compliance costs and discrimination risks outweigh the anticipated benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for hiring and employment-related...more

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AI Legislation Update: March 26, 2024

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Keypoint: Since our last update on US artificial intelligence (AI) legislation impacting the private sector, Utah enacted the first AI private sector bill of 2024, Oklahoma moved closer to passing an AI Bill of Rights,...more

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AI Credibility Judgment Tool Prompts Lawsuit Over Lie Detector Use

A number of vendors are promoting artificial intelligence-based software for use in applicant screening and hiring. These tools promise to automate parts of the hiring process and to streamline the review of applicant...more

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EEOC Files for Consent Decree Settlement in AI Discrimination Case

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ramped-up enforcement and guidance in recent months over employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI). On May 18, 2023, as part of its Artificial Intelligence and...more

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EEOC Issues Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Employment Selection Procedures Under Title VII

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On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or “the Commission”), the federal agency charged with administering federal civil rights laws (including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans...more

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New York City delays enforcement of its artificial intelligence bias audit in employment law as rule-making continues

New York City (NYC) has delayed to April 15, 2023 the enforcement of its first-of-its-type law on bias in artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in employment. Local Law 144 of 2021 prohibits employers in NYC from using...more

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The Top 17 Workplace Law Stories from May 2022

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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[Virtual Briefing] Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Legal Risks and Solutions - March 23rd, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET

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You've likely seen the headlines. Online recruiting tools that unfairly screen out women and minorities. Facial recognition tools used in law enforcement that misidentify specific demographic groups. Algorithms that place...more

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Is That Recruiting Technology Compliant?

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There is some cool recruiting tech out there. Swipe, for example, a Tinder-like mobile app, allows hiring managers to “swipe right” for the applicants they are interested in. It also has a built in job-matching algorithm....more

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