Attention employers and job seekers! As a result of some incoming changes to the Employment Standards Act, job postings are about to look different!
Ontario’s Working For Workers Four Act received Royal Assent on March 21, 2024. And now, a brief interlude on Ontario’s law-making process in case you’ve forgotten: Royal Assent is the last
Special thanks to our articling student Mario Lofranco for contributing to this update.
In a previous blog post, we discussed the proposed changes that Bill 149 would bring to several employment statutes, building on the Working for Workers Acts, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Bill 149 received royal assent on March 21,
By Rachel V. See and Annette Tyman
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Acting Director of OFCCP and the Solicitor of Labor indicated that they are moving full speed ahead on developing guidance regarding employers’ use of artificial intelligence, and that the Department of Labor is working on a “broader value-based document” that contains “principles and best practices” for
In case you missed it, the latest edition of Insights, our employment, benefits and mobility publication, is now out.
Highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses this year, Insights includes perspectives from a range of jurisdictions on topical issues:
As the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence have increased, so have concerns that generative AI might be used to manipulate voters and the administration of elections in the 2024 presidential election and primaries. The first warning shot came in New Hampshire on January 21, 2024, two days before the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election, when
On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Members of European Parliament endorsed the Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), with 523 votes in favor, 46 against, and 49 abstentions. This is the world’s first comprehensive AI law and likely to have significant influence on the rapid development of AI regulation in other jurisdictions including in the United
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I recently sat down with host Ed Skimin to discuss that and more. We talked about Wickens Herzer Panza’s comprehensive legal services for small to mid-sized businesses, our global reach through Mackrell International,
Background
On March 18, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against two SEC registered investment advisers for making false and misleading statements about their purported use of artificial intelligence (“AI”). The firms agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and pay $400,000 in total civil penalties.
Cause of Action
One firm’s charges arose
Most comprehensive write-up on Contract Summaries – what are these, how to create them, how to use AI to generate different types of contract summaries and what are the key benefits and considerations in using contract summaries .
If you have a child applying for college this year, you know the pain that we are currently feeling. This year, Congress decided to change the process to apply for federal financial aid. The changes to the FAFSA (“Free Application for Federal Student Aid”) were supposed to make applying for financial aid easier. Instead, it has