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Jul 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Polson
The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling that gives employers a powerful tool to fight back against regulatory overreach will have a broad impact on just about every area of workplace law – and every industry. We’re looking at the way industries will be specifically impacted now that federal agency rules and positions are more susceptible to attack after SCOTUS ditched the decades-old Chevron doctrine.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin M. Ebbink |John Polson
There are three actions PEOs and their customers can take to save up to 85% in California litigation costs thanks to a recent legislative compromise. Anyone doing business in California is no doubt familiar with the Private Attorneys’ General Act – or PAGA, the scariest four-letter word in the state for employers. What you might not know is that a pending overhaul could soon tame the state’s most vicious law and provide much-needed relief to PEOs and their customers.
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May 10, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Polson
Two competing forces battling it out right now could have an outsized impact on your clients’ workplaces and your overall business practices over the next few months – so you should make sure you have a basic understanding of what’s going on so you can adjust and advise as necessary. Government agencies are trying harder than ever to reshape the way alternative workplace models conduct their business, while some sympathetic courts are siding with businesses and pushing back on these efforts.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Steven Bernstein |Joshua Nadreau |John Polson
In an eleventh-hour decision, a federal court judge in Texas just struck down the Labor Board’s controversial joint employer rule right before it was set to take effect on Monday. The NLRB had aimed to make it far easier for workers to be considered employees of more than one entity for labor relations purposes – a move that would have resulted in increased union organizing and collective bargaining efforts across the country – but Friday’s decision halted it in its tracks.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Steven Bernstein |Joshua Nadreau |John Polson
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Lisa Nagele-Piazza |John Polson
Most HR professionals are no strangers to technology, particularly when it comes to using applicant tracking systems and human resource information systems to hire workers and track key employment data. However, recent innovations — such as ChatGPT and other generative AI tools — are changing HR processes and have the potential to both create and eliminate workplace biases.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin M. Ebbink |John Polson
When Representative Ted Lieu offered a simple but effective AI compliance roadmap to attendees at the recent Fisher Phillips AI Strategies @ Work Conference, employers in the room took notice. After all, Rep. Lieu is not only a member of the House AI Caucus and one of only four members of Congress with a computer science degree, but he was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI in the world.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | John Polson |Nan Sato |William Wright
A large majority of American employers are unaware of the opportunities they could seize by doing business in Mexico, but those that have opened up shop south of the border report positive gains in several key areas. That’s according to the results of our most recent FP Flash Survey, which gathered information from employers between September 25 – October 2.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | John Polson |Nan Sato |William Wright
Mexico has gone through such sweeping labor reforms in the past few years that it now ranks as one of the best places for outsourcing and expansion. You may still be dissuaded from cross-border operations due to old misconceptions or outdated notions about what it’s like to do business down there, especially as an employer. It’s time to rethink everything. This Insight quickly summarizes what’s changed and outlines the reasons Mexico is now a more attractive place to operate.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Wendy Hughes |Karen L. Odash |John Polson
Perhaps you’ve asked an employee to take notes during a Zoom meeting, but they complained the task is difficult to manage while collaborating with teammates. Maybe you intended to document everything that transpired during an important call about a new strategic plan, but conversations moved too fast to track. Artificial intelligence can be a valuable resource for documenting such meetings – especially given the rise in popular notetaking tools such as Fireflies.ai and Clickup.
