SAN DIEGO, CA (January 29, 2025) Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Amy Todd has joined the firm as office managing principal in San Diego. Amy joins the firm from Littler Mendelson, where she was a shareholder, and brings more than 25 years of experience in employment litigation.
Archives for January 29, 2025
Michael Thomas and Peter Woo Discuss the Impact of Trump’s DEI Policies on the Private Sector
Michael Thomas and Peter Woo discusses President Trump’s recent executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and their impact on private-sector businesses in “With Trump taking an ax to DEI, companies in the private sector should bulletproof their diversity practices,” published by Business Insider. Subscription may be required to view article
Samia Kirmani Comments on the Challenges of Race-Restricted Hiring Programs
Samia Kirmani comments on the challenges employers may face with race-restricted hiring programs, predicting increased legal scrutiny under President Trump’s recent executive order in “How to Adjust Your DEI Initiatives Under Trump’s New Guidelines,” published by SHRM. Subscription may be required to view article
Did Elon Musk Write the “Fork in the Road” Layoffs Memo?
President Trump’s chief cost-cutter cheered an effort to persuade federal workers to quit — in a fashion that closely resembles a purge at Twitter.
Preparing for Federal Immigration Workplace Inspections: What Employers Need to Know
The post Preparing for Federal Immigration Workplace Inspections: What Employers Need to Know appeared first on Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP.
How Deconstructing Jobs Can Change Your Organization
Many organizations are experimenting with “job deconstruction,” a new way of organizing work where employees’ skills are dynamically matched with specific tasks or projects rather than through fixed roles. While this is a potentially transformative organizing principle for enhancing talent deployment across organizations, its implementation is not without challenges. Research highlights three tensions in particular which, if left unchecked, risk alienating employees and failing to deliver the benefits of job deconstruction: Balancing autonomy and control, balancing detachment and belonging, and balancing growth and stability. Implementing guardrails that place the human experience front and center can buffer against the negative effects of these tensions.
Research: Trying to Pick the “Best of the Best” Is the Wrong Approach
In selecting the most creative people or ideas to hire or implement, many organizations use multi-step processes that winnow the initial pool to a group of finalists and then select “the best of the best” from the finalists. Research conducted in which the authors were involved found that such an approach may be a waste of time and resources and that the experts trying to pick the winners from the finalists agonize and can’t really determine the clearly superior choices. A better approach might be: keep the selection criteria for identifying talent or potential relatively broad, don’t try to select the best of the best and instead use other criteria such as diversity or cultural fit, involve experts early in the process, and create a community of winners that includes all finalists.
More Time Off Protections for Qualified Employees – Workplace Wake-Up with Jen Shaw
In this episode, Jen discusses the new California law related to time off for crime victims and another mandatory paid sick leave expansion.
White House emails federal workforce offering easy way to quit
The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.
Trump fires multiple leaders at EEOC, NLRB
Some agency employees who President Donald Trump terminated from their leadership roles Monday night are now “considering legal options.”
Power At Work #78 (Live): 2024 NLRB Union Member Survey Results
In this live blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris will review the 2024 Union Member Survey results with Aaron Sojourner, a labor economist and senior researcher at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Watch now to hear Harris and Sojourner interpret what these results
Removing Gender Ideology and Restoring the EEOC’s Role of Protecting Women in the Workplace
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas announced that the agency is returning to its mission of protecting women from sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination in the workplace by rolling back the Biden administration’s gender identity agenda.
Massachusetts Publishes FAQs on Its State Pay Transparency Act
Massachusetts published frequently asked questions on its new pay transparency law that requires large employers to submit workforce data this year by Feb. 3.
How to Adjust Your DEI Initiatives Under Trump’s New Guidelines
Learn how the private sector can ensure policies align with anti-discrimination laws and support merit-based practices per the president’s executive order.
Gen Z Is Redefining the Workplace — and Companies Must Adapt or Face Losing Talent
The power dynamic in the workplace is shifting as young workers prioritize individuality and meaningful work over climbing the corporate ladder.