The pandemic is over, says the WHO. What happens now? For employers, it’s a return to business as usual. Whatever that means today.
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The AI You Use May Be The AI You Get Sued Over
A few months ago, I wrote about how artificial intelligence was being introduced in the workplace.
At the ABA Annual Labor & Employment Conference last week, a whole panel discussion was devoted to the legal ramifications of using artificial intelligence — particularly in hiring decisions.
The speakers talked about the EEOC guidance that I
Managing Leaves of Absences with Deadlines and Triggers
Last week, I attended the ABA Annual Labor & Employment Law Conference — something I’ve written about on this blog pre-pandemic (remember when?).
There were many good programs and I’ll try to talk about some of the other topics in an upcoming blog post or two.
However, one topic that I was interested in
Where We Live Interview – Long COVID and Employment Law
On November 1 at 9 a.m., I’ll be making a return appearance to WNPR’s award-winning Where We Live show. You can listen live or download it as a podcast.
Tomorrow’s topic is one that we never would’ve dreamed of years ago — Long COVID.
Long COVID is the term that the CDC uses to
Are Reasonable Accommodations Offered During Mediation Admissible? Court Says Yes
Engaging in the interactive process is an important — and sometimes overlooked — part of an employer’s response to a request for a reasonable accommodation under state and federal law.
I talked about this way back in 2008 (!) when the state Supreme Court released it’s landmark Curry v. Allen S. Goodman decision expanding the
When AI Meets the Workplace, Who’s Responsible?
When I got my first Macintosh computer in college, I was fascinated by little soundbites that you could add and play.
One of my favorites was a clip from the movie “2001” where Hal, the seemingly sentient space computer, says to an astronaut: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” in response to
Standards of Proof for Discrimination and Why It Matters
Earlier this week, my colleague Bradley Harper and I did a post our sister blog site, Employment Law Letter, on a recent Connecticut Appellate Court case discussing the level of proof needed by an employee to win a discrimination case.
If you haven’t read it yet, you can click here.
The key line in the
When Will the Pandemic Rules Change Again?
Obviously, the big news of last week was that a federal court struck down the mask mandate for public transportation.
But from a bigger employment law perspective, there may be other rules with a shelf life too. The road we are travelling on is not in a straight line. The big question for now is
The Never-Finished Posts: A Peek Into the Past and Future
Over the last few weeks, I rediscovered the “draft” folder of the back end of my blog. By last count, I had nearly twenty posts that I started and then didn’t finish for one reason or the other.
Some posts have just a title and maybe a line or two; a few were basically finished.
You’re Fully Vaccinated. Now What?
Over the weekend, I became one of an ever-growing club: The Fully Vaccinated. (A lucky extra dose at a pharmacy was my early miracle.)
By early May, there will many millions more.
What then?
I posted on Twitter over the weekend that being fully vaccinated right now is a strange world that is causing the