Organized labor is making a public push to have a greater say in how employers implement artificial intelligence in the workplace, queuing up a strategy that relies on a mix of political advocacy and collective bargaining to address a technology that the labor movement is casting as a potential existential threat.
The U.S. Department of Labor's announcement Thursday that it is restoring an overtime salary threshold from President Donald Trump's first administration, rather than putting in place a new level, has attorneys wondering when future rulemaking will happen.
A recent Tenth Circuit decision that a single workplace racial sensitivity seminar couldn't sustain a white corrections officer's harassment suit aligns with a Second Circuit's analysis in a similar case last year, offering much-needed clarity as employers' diversity programs continue to draw legal challenges.