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Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Henry S. Shapiro has been named a 40 Under Forty honoree by Long Island Business News. Honorees are members of the Long Island business community who have a proven track record of career success, are involved in mentoring and promoting their profession and find time to give back to their communities.

Amy Gittler discusses the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s evenhanded judicial approach while arguing “O’Connor’s Measured Approach Visible in Insurance cases,” published by Law360. 

Los Angeles attorney Geetha Adinata was quoted in the Law360 article, “Hospitality Groups Push For Visa Changes to Fill Labor Gap.” This article discusses the lack of available U.S. workers within the hospitality industry post-pandemic and the initiatives from hospitality groups pushing for visa changes to help fill the gap.

Richard Greenberg, Daniel Jacobs, Henry Shapiro, Christopher Valentino and Kevin Murray author “New York Laws Affect Freelancer Protections and Discrimination Claims,” published by SHRM. 

Eric Felsburg and Joseph Lazzarotti discuss key principles that businesses should familiarize themselves with to successfully navigate the legal, ethical and regulatory terms of artificial intelligence (AI) use in “What to Know About Biden’s Executive Order on AI,” published by ACC. 

Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Stacey C.S. Cerrone has been inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC). Fellows have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the development and pursuit of public awareness and understanding of the law of employee benefits and have at least 20 years of experience as an employee benefits practitioner.

Laura Mitchell comments on a wave of new state and local salary transparency laws spurring workers to pushback as current employees protest discrepancies between their pay and the range offered in job ads for similar new positions in “Pay Transparency Emboldens Workers as Companies Strive to Comply,” published by Bloomberg Law. 

Walter Pfeffer talks about California’s new statutes on restrictive covenants and explains why it may be hard for employers to determine who is actually covered.

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Stephen T. Melnick talks about a new bill that proposes to give a tax credit to businesses in Massachusetts that join a pilot program to explore the possible benefits of a shorter workweek.

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Meghann Barloewen explains how knowledge management professionals can serve a collaborative function for growth in a law firm.

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Daniel Gomez-Sanchez discusses New York City’s size discrimination law and what questions employers still need answered.

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Amidst a national trend in states and the federal government to discourage noncompetes, Walter C. Pfeffer says employers will need to spend a lot of time on a “complicated risk analysis that’s going to cause a lot of confusion.”

Business Insurance

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Javier Molina discusses the challenges of employers giving employees gifts for Christmas.

Expansión

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Bradford J. Kelley and Kellen Shearin say President Biden’s executive order regulating the use of AI will have a broad impact on private entities.

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Alexander MacDonald says unions are still primarily focused on the potential that AI has to displace workers, but he expects them to evolve in how they seek to address the technology in enforceable contract language.

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