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Impressing a Robot: EEOC Takes a Byte Out of AI Based Hiring (US)
Squire Patton Boggs Intern Ruzanna Mirzoyan discusses the EEOC’s focus on artificial employment tools in employment recruitment and hiring decisions. Job applicants might be surprised to learn that...
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New GCC rules for employers, Part 1 (UAE)
A number of changes were introduced across the Gulf Cooperation Council states during the course of 2022 (several of which have now been implemented, while some are due to take effect later in 2023)....
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The gender pay gap and what Belgian employers need to do about it (now and in...
The statistics Some uplifting news last week from Statbel, the Belgian Agency for Statistics. In 2021, there was no longer a pay gap for young women in Belgium. But as their age goes up, so opens up...
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This next post in our GCC series looks at changes in Saudi law on discrimination, immigration and Saudization. New Policy To Foster Equal Opportunities and Prevent Discrimination In January, the Saudi...
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Psychosocial hazards and poor organisational justice – necessary protection...
There is a growing emphasis on the need to properly manage psychosocial hazards in the workplace that may create a risk to workers’ health and safety. But recent changes to safety laws indicate that...
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New UK ethnicity pay reporting guidance – why should you bother?
Last week the government issued its first official guidance on ethnicity pay gap reporting. Somewhat unusually among gov.uk workplace guidance, it is prospectively a very useful read. To its...
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Summer State/Local Law Round-Up, Part 2 of 2 (US)
In our post earlier this week, we covered recent developments in state and local labor and employment laws in the states at the beginning of the alphabet. We now turn our attention to developments in...
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Eleventh Circuit Says No ADA Failure to Accommodate Claim Without an Adverse...
Squire Patton Boggs Summer Associate Tess Chaffee summarizes a recent opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit holding that an adverse employment action is required for...
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New anti-bullying law proposals make grim reading all round for UK workplaces
So here we go again, another attempt to legislate against workplace bullying. This is not the first – back in 2001 there was a Dignity at Work bill, a fantastically inept piece of drafting crippled...
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“Getting the most out of the fit note”: new guidance for UK employers
Well, sort of. Almost nothing has changed in this month’s new government guidance on fit notes over the previous versions. You can receive a fit note digitally these days and (to reduce doctors’...
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