Continuing my series of posts arising from the ABA Labor & Employment Conference earlier this month, one of the most interesting programs I attended was a plenary session on neurodiversity in the workplace.
“Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one
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
In just a few weeks, I’ll be speaking at the CBIA’s Employment Law Conference on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence & Analytics for HR: Recruiting, Retention & Engagement”.
As I was speaking to the moderator about potential subjects of our discussion, we were arguing over whether AI is something for the future or something
I admit it. Misleading headline.
It won’t be EVERYTHING else. But….there were a few other nuggets from the ABA Labor & Employment Annual Conference last week that are worth sharing. For prior posts on the subject, go here and here.
A few years back, I had the opportunity to meet Allison West at a conference out in California. She runs Employment Practices Specialists and does workplace investigations. (She’s also a terrific speaker and I’d highly recommend you go to a session where she is speaking.)
She recently let me know about an Association of Workplace
Last month, I wrote about the Home Depot credit card data breach and the importance of protecting company data. But the issue of protecting employee data is far from new.
Back in 2011, one legal publication had this to say about employee data:
Employers collect a substantial amount of personal information about their employees. Companies
First off, I should let you know that I am a poor substitute for Harrison Ford.
But, don’t let that dissuade you from saving October 16th as the date for a terrific conference that I’m helping to plan. The title is “Raiders of the Data Ark” and the subject is “2014 Data Privacy & Cyber
For many years, employers set up firewalls at work that prevented employees from going to certain websites.
Didn’t want your employees shopping at Amazon? Block the site.
Didn’t want your employees posting updates at Facebook? Block the site.
But here’s the reality: Smartphones have made those firewalls meaningless. Information, as I’ve said before, wants to
The American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Annual Conference is going on right now in Atlanta, Georgia. As I’ve recapped on this blog before (here, for example), there are some terrific programs and educational opportunities there.
I wasn’t able to make it down this year, but due to the wonders of technology,
Next week, I’ll be speaking at the HR Compliance Conference in San Francisco on “Hiring Without Headaches: Ten Things You Need To Know About Hiring in the 21st Centry“. It’s not too late to join us and I hope, if you read this blog, that you’ll say hi when I’m out there.
The program