Even in a job market where employers may turn to artificial intelligence to sift through hundreds of resumes to find the right candidate, keeping human decision-makers remains key for avoiding disability discrimination by tools like interviewing software, experts say. Here are three tips for utilizing AI in the interviewing process.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Milbank LLP became the latest firms to reach agreements with the Trump administration to stave off executive orders, and a group of Republican state attorneys general urged law firms to hand over information on their workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
Recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice flagged employers’ use of so-called diverse slates — pools of job applicants that deliberately include people of diverse backgrounds — as potentially unlawful. Here are two things experts say attorneys should know.
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Even in a job market where employers may turn to artificial intelligence to sift through hundreds of resumes to find the right candidate, keeping human decision-makers remains key for avoiding disability discrimination by tools like interviewing software, experts say. Here are three tips for utilizing AI in the interviewing process.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Milbank LLP became the latest firms to reach agreements with the Trump administration to stave off executive orders, and a group of Republican state attorneys general urged law firms to hand over information on their workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
Recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice flagged employers’ use of so-called diverse slates — pools of job applicants that deliberately include people of diverse backgrounds — as potentially unlawful. Here are two things experts say attorneys should know.
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April 07, 2025
The Sixth Circuit backed security company Idemia's defeat of a former executive's lawsuit claiming he was forced out because he was over 50 and undergoing prostate cancer treatment, finding Monday he couldn't overcome the explanation that his boss had lost confidence in his leadership abilities.
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April 07, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget issued a pair of memorandums last week that replaced the Biden administration's safeguards on the federal acquisition of artificial intelligence with a policy aimed at accelerating federal agencies' use and procurement of artificial intelligence.
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April 07, 2025
A restaurant chain told an Ohio federal court Monday it agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it allowed a biracial worker to endure racial and disability-related slurs and then fired her for taking time off.
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April 07, 2025
A former executive at Metrc, the company that provides product tracking services for a majority of U.S. regulated cannabis markets, has alleged in a new federal lawsuit that he was fired for speaking out about the company's business practices.
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April 07, 2025
A Republican representative introduced legislation that aims to block U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations that would require employers to accommodate workers' abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
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April 07, 2025
A group of former Twitter employees is trying to force the company now known as X to arbitrate the workers' challenges to allegedly unlawful actions taken after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, claiming the social media giant is preventing their cases from moving forward by refusing to pay the full arbitration fees.
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April 07, 2025
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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April 07, 2025
A Teamsters local urged a Missouri federal court to uphold an arbitration award requiring Unilever to reinstate an employee who was let go for allegedly falsifying company records, arguing the arbitrator issued a reasonable decision that the worker was fired without just cause.
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April 07, 2025
Littler Mendelson has asked to be cut loose from a former tech company executive's suit claiming the firm and the business worked together to retaliate against her for complaining that her boss made bigoted comments, arguing to a New York federal court that it can't be held liable for the legal advice it provided.
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April 07, 2025
Wigdor LLP sought to withdraw from a sexual assault case against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black in New York federal court as the billionaire investor seeks sanctions against the firm and its Jane Doe client.
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April 07, 2025
Woody Allen struck a deal with his former private chef to resolve his suit accusing the filmmaker of abruptly firing him after he took time off to participate in military exercises as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, a filing in New York federal court said.
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April 07, 2025
A Texas federal court tossed an attorney's suit accusing Harris County, Texas, of failing to accommodate his leave requests and instead punishing him with a negative performance review after the parties said they reached a deal ahead of trial.
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April 04, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreed to drop its bid to overturn an order blocking it from enforcing regulations that extend the Affordable Care Act's anti-discrimination provisions to transgender individuals against Florida organizations, according to filings with the Eleventh Circuit.
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April 04, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to reverse a Connecticut federal judge's decision giving final approval to a class and collective action settlement between a home health care company and workers based on a memorandum of understanding that the company claims is unenforceable.
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April 04, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Texas federal court Friday that a Goodwill operation has agreed to pay $75,000 to end the agency's suit alleging the organization illegally declined to hire a deaf applicant for a retail role because "hearing and speaking" were job requirements.
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April 04, 2025
California’s Legislature is considering bills that seek to update the state’s equal pay laws, bar employers from using so called stay-or-pay contracts and harmonize the meaning of family across paid leave laws. Here, Law360 explores these three bills that will drive discussion on workers’ rights.
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April 04, 2025
Los Angeles County announced Friday that it's reached a $4 billion tentative settlement to resolve nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse at juvenile detention facilities and foster homes, a historic deal described by some as the largest-ever payout of its kind.
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April 04, 2025
A female former Houston Housing Authority Corp. employee has alleged in Texas federal court that she was sexually harassed, dealt with sexist remarks, got demoted and was retaliated against by her supervisor when she worked there.
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April 04, 2025
A Second Circuit judge appeared incredulous Friday at New York City's defense of implicit bias trainings that its education department mandated employees complete in 2018, stating during a case hearing that the seminars were "incredibly racist" and could constitute unlawful harassment.
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April 04, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor this week urged an Illinois federal judge to reconsider his analysis of a provision in President Donald Trump's recent executive orders directing federal agencies to terminate "equity-related" grants and to limit the scope of any forthcoming preliminary injunction to the Chicago-based trade group that filed suit challenging them.
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April 04, 2025
A Virginia federal judge has allowed Liberty University Inc. to immediately appeal the non-dismissal of a discrimination suit by a transgender woman fired for transitioning, ruling that it's an open question whether religious exemptions to Title VII apply when a firing is "plausibly as sex-based as it was religion-based."
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April 04, 2025
An Iowa-based transportation and logistics company agreed to pay $100,000 to end a California Civil Rights Department investigation into allegations that it unlawfully pulled a job offer because of an applicant's criminal history, according to the state agency.
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April 04, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a challenge to California's independent contractor classification law by trucking industry groups and two drivers, a case that previously went before the appeals court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 04, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday axed a Massachusetts federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to reinstate $250 million in teacher training grants for eight states, giving President Donald Trump his first high court win amid what he claims is a flood of unlawful court orders restraining the executive branch's power.
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April 04, 2025
A proposed class of unionized female public defenders on Friday settled civil rights claims against Delaware County, Pennsylvania, nearly three years after suing their employer for alleged "systemic, enduring and continuing wage disparity" between male and female attorneys in suburban Philadelphia.