?The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled out the possibility of a one-year statute of limitations for claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The case is called Tims v. Blackhorse... Read more »
?More than half of enterprise companies have yet to implement cutting-edge legal technologies to assist with compliance tracking and management, but human resources may be here to help. Legal and compliance departments... Read more »
?The myriad challenges faced by businesses over the past few years have shined a new spotlight on people analytics. The C-suite is paying more attention to how talent shortages impact the bottom... Read more »
At a Feb. 2 press conference marking the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), President Joe Biden called for extended support for time-off benefits and announced he had... Read more »
?U.S. employers added 517,000 new jobs in January, much more than expected, according to the latest employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That’s compared with an average monthly gain of... Read more »
?A U.K. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) study last year estimated that 19 percent of employees in the United Kingdom were likely to face redundancy over the next 12 months. More... Read more »
?Health savings accounts (HSAs) rapidly became a dominate part of employer-sponsored health care after being authorized in 2003, when President George W. Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act.... Read more »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently held a public hearing that enabled workplace experts to offer suggestions for ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t discriminate against job applicants. The session,... Read more »
?Employers may face higher risks from lawsuits by whistleblowers in the future. As part of last year’s omnibus spending bill, Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act, which increases rewards whistleblowers... Read more »
?Employee compensation growth has slightly cooled again, according to new data released today, suggesting wage growth may have peaked since its record jump in mid-2022. Labor compensation costs in the U.S. for... Read more »
