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Using AI in Human Resources: Generative AI in the Workplace

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This post is the third in a three-part series examining the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Human Resources. In Part I, we explored some of AI’s uses in the workplace and potential legal complications with the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

AB 5 Survives Challenge From Freelance Writers, Photographers

Assembly Bill 5 regulates economic activity and not speech, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held, affirming dismissal of a suit brought by freelance writers and photographers challenging the...more

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AB 2257: Sweeping Changes To AB 5 Independent Contractor Law

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses operating in California have had all of eight months to adapt since Assembly Bill 5, a landmark piece of legislation governing their relationships with independent contractors, took effect on...more

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California Enacts AB 2257, Providing Much-Needed Clarification and Adding Exemptions to AB 5

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses operating in California have had all of eight months to adapt since Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), a landmark piece of legislation governing their relationships with independent contractors, took...more

Epstein Becker & Green

California Adds More Exemptions to Controversial Independent Contractor Statute

We have written frequently here about AB5, California’s controversial law that creates an “ABC” test that must be satisfied in order for a worker to be treated as an independent contractor. ...more

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California Independent Contractor Legislation Would Reform AB 5's Treatment of Freelance Writers, Musicians, Artists, and Other...

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On August 31, 2020, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 2257. If signed by Governor Newsom, AB 2257 would exempt several categories of workers from the stringent requirements of the ABC Test under Assembly Bill 5...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Financial Core” – A Dissident Writer’s Recourse

Amid the confusion and tensions of the WGA-ATA dispute over packaging fees and agency ties to affiliated production entities, more than 7,000 termination letters have been sent out to non-franchised agents who once...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Deputy Lawyer; WGA Tries Preemption Route in ATA Dispute

The ongoing dispute between the Writers’ Guild of America (“WGA”) and the Association of Talent Agencies (“ATA”) took a new turn recently when the WGA announced that it would use the authority granted to it under the National...more

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The New Gig in the Mini-Room

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As anyone who has spent a weekend binging an entire season of Stranger Things or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel can tell you, society’s consumption of television has shifted dramatically in the last several years. Discovering...more

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