One of the most pervasive myths about AI is that it will decimate the workforce. But the opposite is apt to be true.
Archives for July 7, 2024
Internet Browsers Are Getting a Makeover for the Workplace
Commercial web browsers weren’t built for business. New enterprise browsers aim to provide the security controls and user experience needed for work.
The ‘Mouse Shuffle,’ A 2024 Workplace Trend, Has Employers Scratching Their Heads
Since the pandemic, employers have been engaging in certain types of quiet maneuvering like “quiet cutting” and employee surveillance to assuage the needs of business and stabilize their workforce.
The workplace attention span is dead: 60% of employees can’t go 30 minutes without getting distracted
The good news: It’s not just you unable to home in on work tasks during your 9-to-5. The bad news: No one in the office is able to focus anymore.
Workplace Recognition Is Actually Reassurance—and Necessary
People need weekly recognition at work to feel safe, not special.
This new [Louisiana] law helps clear up any ambiguity over workplace harassment
A new Louisiana law makes it more explicit that nondisclosure agreements signed as a condition of employment cannot be used to cover up sexual harassment and hostile acts in the workplace, Louisiana Illuminator reports.
California’s workplace violence prevention law is now in effect. Here’s how it changes things
Beginning this month, California businesses will be required to have plans in place to prevent violence in the workplace.
A shortage of young men in the workforce could weigh on housing, Social Security, and growth for years to come
Declining workforce participation among younger men could weigh on the US economy for years.
A lack of child care is keeping this 43-year-old mother of four out of the workforce
Stefanie Longenecker left her job to care for her kids during Covid-era school closures. Despite several tough years with less income, she’s still hopeful. “It does seem like things are improving.”
Tech workers look like the real winners of the AI talent war
Tech companies are embroiled in an intense war for top AI talent.
OSHA Unveils Text of Unprecedented Federal Heat Standard
OSHA has issued its proposed workplace heat exposure standard, which would apply to nearly all employers. The proposed standard would require employers to develop a Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Plan with site-specific information to identify, monitor, and control heat hazards in their workplace, and to develop a heat emergency
Advocates Raise Alarms Over Project 2025 Labor Road Map
Michael Lotito talks about Project 2025, a conservative group’s road map for an incoming Trump administration, and how it would quickly put a stamp on labor policy.
Law360 Employment Authority
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Supreme Court Scales Back Federal Agency Powers
Alex MacDonald says that federal agencies will have to look for new ways to advance their policy positions in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Chevron.
Corporate Compliance Insights
Labor Enforcers’ Policy Strategies Will Get Post-Chevron Rewrite
Alexander MacDonald says without Chevron, agency rulemakings will likely stick closer to the statute or take “fewer big swings” when it comes to interpreting the law.
Bloomberg Law
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Agencies’ Influence over Employers May Erode After Supreme Court Decision
Alexander MacDonald says agencies may have to “regulate more modestly and litigate more often” after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron.
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