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Archives for October 3, 2024
Long Island Workplace Law Breakfast Series: Top 5 Wage and Hour Liabilities That Exist in Almost Every Workplace and How to Fix Them
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Long Island Workplace Law Breakfast Series: Top 5 Strategic Steps HR Professionals Can Take to Make HR a Cost-Saver as Opposed to a Cost-Center
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Workers over 40 say they’re being passed over for promotions and cut out of higher salaries
Gen X and boomer employees facing ageism are struggling at the office.
4 Signs That Indicate You Could Be Bullying Career Coworkers
Experts say that many workplace bullies are unaware that they’re bullying, but there are a number of indicators that abusers cannot deny and actions they need to take.
At work & all alone: Ways to tackle isolation in the workplace
According to a survey by BetterUp, 69% of employees report they are not happy with their social connections at work while 43% of people don’t feel a sense of connection with their colleagues.
Report: Employees value flexibility and autonomy in the workplace
Eighty-one percent of employees who go into the office two days or fewer are satisfied with their part-time in-office setup.
Port strike: How much does the union boss leading the charge make?
International Longshoremen’s Association International President Harold J. Daggett took in a massive sum of income last year, according to union filings from the Department of Labor.
Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap — and Companies Need to Prepare
Traditionally, legal actions have been time consuming, expensive, and distracting. Generative AI makes it easier — and cheaper — for customers, employees, competitors, and regulators to take legal action, at the same time that a turbulent geopolitical environment increases legal exposure. Future legal risks will be legal fishing expeditions akin to internet “phishing” attacks: less personal, mass-produced actions initiated by many actors. When coordinated, they’ll be much more like distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which involves overwhelming a target with a flood of traffic to knock it offline. To prepare for this new reality companies need to take a page out of cybersecurity readiness. Specifically, they’ll need to quickly take action to better understand their vulnerabilities, emerging threats and their potential impact, the risk-mitigation actions they want to take, and their communication strategies to internal and external stakeholders.
The Union Leader Behind the Ports Strike
As president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, Harold Daggett is taking advantage of organized labor’s resurgence to drive a hard bargain.
Countdown to Election Day: Navigating Political Speech in the Workplace
As we quickly approach Election Day in November, political discussions can dominate daily life, including in the workplace.
Will ageism in the workplace affect us all, eventually?
Ageism is one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice in our society. Here’s what I’ve seen firsthand, and discovered through research.
Workplace fashion rules have completely transformed—Here’s what you should wear to work
Shorts, heels and neckties are out, but fashionable sneakers are in.
Processing Biometric Data in the Workplace
Tim Hickman, Partner at White & Case LLP, advises on the practical implications of using biometric technologies in the workplace, and how to meet the requirements of the GDPR/UK GDPR and EU AI Act.