A new Illinois law upping the legal protections for job candidates and employees evaluated by artificial intelligence signals that workplaces will continue to be at the center of the state-led campaign to curb AI bias, experts said.
The opacity of workplace artificial intelligence tools poses a daunting challenge for plaintiff-side employment lawyers who think that technology causes discriminatory results. Here are four strategies that workers' attorneys can use to get traction.
The growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring and other workplace decisions has the plaintiffs bar playing catch-up as attorneys try to track down workers who have been harmed by AI tools and figure out how and when the technology is being used. Here are the three biggest obstacles for plaintiffs lawyers who want to ensure AI doesn't discriminate.
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A new Illinois law upping the legal protections for job candidates and employees evaluated by artificial intelligence signals that workplaces will continue to be at the center of the state-led campaign to curb AI bias, experts said.
The opacity of workplace artificial intelligence tools poses a daunting challenge for plaintiff-side employment lawyers who think that technology causes discriminatory results. Here are four strategies that workers' attorneys can use to get traction.
The growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring and other workplace decisions has the plaintiffs bar playing catch-up as attorneys try to track down workers who have been harmed by AI tools and figure out how and when the technology is being used. Here are the three biggest obstacles for plaintiffs lawyers who want to ensure AI doesn't discriminate.
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August 19, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a Texas federal judge to side with the administrative law judge overseeing the immigration bias investigation against SpaceX, saying the company is using its constitutional attack against the framework of the proceeding as a distraction.
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August 19, 2024
The city of Seattle has argued that a white ex-employee can't prevail in his discrimination claims over its workplace diversity programming, telling a Washington federal judge the worker was never disciplined or demoted despite his "increasingly aggressive and inappropriate attacks on coworkers" who supported the racial justice initiative.
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August 19, 2024
A New York state judge on Monday declined to dismiss an actress's claims against The Walt Disney Co., its subsidiary Miramax Film NY LLC and Creative Artists Agency LLC over an alleged sexual assault by disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.
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August 19, 2024
In a pair of dueling briefs, both the U.S. Air Force and a cadre of its airmen are sparring over whether the military's revocation of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members spells the end for the airmen's suit challenging the mandate on religious freedom grounds.
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August 19, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld a $250,000 jury verdict finding that a Michigan county brought retaliatory use-of-force criminal charges against a sheriff's office sergeant for filing a previous lawsuit, ruling he put forward enough proof that the charges he was hit with may have been bogus.
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August 19, 2024
Facility management company ABM agreed to pay $52,000 to a deaf job applicant who said their job offer for a warehouse cleaner position was put on ice after they asked for an accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday.
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August 19, 2024
A Tennessee federal judge refused to give three staffing companies a green light to appeal her decision that they must face a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming they favored Hispanic workers over Black ones.
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August 19, 2024
A Boston police commissioner who was fired over decades-old abuse allegations had plenty of chances to give his side of the story, a Massachusetts federal court said Monday in rejecting claims he was defamed and stigmatized by the city's ex-mayor.
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August 19, 2024
A federal judge recommended dismissing a U.S. Department of Justice suit accusing a Georgia county of firing two Black workers who complained about a slur from a white colleague, faulting the DOJ for trying to "overcomplicate" the case.
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August 19, 2024
A former Cumberland County, New Jersey, health official claiming his firing was political retaliation cannot disqualify the county's counsel in his lawsuit, Testa Heck Testa & White PA, over interactions he had with two firm attorneys around the time of his firing, a state court judge ruled Friday.
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August 19, 2024
A Maryland federal judge has declined to throw out the bulk of a woman's suit against a Baltimore utility and a security firm alleging that she was fired for ending a sexual relationship with her supervisor, only tossing her wrongful termination claim.
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August 16, 2024
Another New Jersey police officer who was fired for off-duty marijuana use must be reinstated, a state commission has ordered, finding it doesn't matter that the officer failed to disclose reliance on cannabis for medical purposes before a screening or that the usage at issue was technically recreational.
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August 16, 2024
HP has joined the list of major companies to be hit with proposed class claims for allegedly failing to include pay ranges in job postings, in violation of Washington state wage disclosure laws, according to a lawsuit moved to Seattle federal court on Thursday.
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August 16, 2024
Counsel for a former Twitter employee urged a California federal judge at a hearing Friday to conditionally certify a proposed age discrimination collective action on behalf of workers 50 and older who were fired after Elon Musk acquired the company, pointing to Musk's remarks as evidence of bias.
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August 16, 2024
The federal government's Fifth Circuit challenge to a court order blocking it from enforcing a law to protect pregnant workers in Texas got support on Friday from four Democratic lawmakers who argued the lower court ruling, if upheld, would undercut Congress' authority to set its own rules of operation.
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August 16, 2024
A Michigan state appeals court refused to upend a Detroit housing agency's defeat of a former property manager's allegation that it fired him without using a progressive discipline system established by his collective bargaining agreement, saying the worker failed to show that his former employer purposely misled the court.
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August 16, 2024
Texas and a conservative D.C. think tank urged a federal court to scrap the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recently updated guidance on workplace harassment, arguing that the federal bias watchdog misinterpreted the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision when crafting the guidelines.
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August 16, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a WNBA star accuses her former team of discrimination for trading her once she became pregnant, questions swirl around the revocation of a U.S. gymnast's Olympic medal, and a BigLaw investigation prompts the University of Notre Dame to suspend its men's swimming program.
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August 16, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed to pay a Colorado appliance company $1,800 in attorney fees for the agency's delays in turning over a worker's communications with her doctor in a disability bias suit.
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August 16, 2024
The United Auto Workers asked an Ohio federal judge to toss a Black member's claim that the union insufficiently fought his discharge from Howmet Aerospace Inc. because of his race, saying the worker failed to show the union unfairly handled the firing grievance.
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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
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August 16, 2024
The First Circuit affirmed a lower court's grant of summary judgment for Bentley University in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former program coordinator, but also took the opportunity to lower the bar for retaliation claims.
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August 16, 2024
A hog farm can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it allowed a transgender worker to be harassed out of a job, the Illinois federal judge scolding the business Friday for attempting to delay the case by falsely asserting the complaint lacked detail.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.