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• Ontario’s Working for Workers Acts (Four, Five, and Six) have introduced changes to the ESA and the OHSA, impacting sick leave policies, job posting transparency, and workplace safety regulations.
• Some changes are already in force; others are coming in 2025 and 2026, including stricter job posting requirements.
• The proposed Working for Workers Six

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• The CFPB’s recently issued guidance on the Fair Credit Reporting Act affects virtually every employer using third-party vendors for employee screening, monitoring, or assessment.
• The guidance serves as a reminder for employers that gather third-party information to vet job applicants to consider whether their third-party vendors’ practices trigger FCRA requirements.
• This guidance also

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• Two German federal ministries have drafted legislation that would provide more legal certainty for employers regarding how to handle employee data.
• The legislature also wants to allow the use of AI applications, but within certain limits.
• The draft legislation would provide a detailed regulation on the basics of employee data processing.

The aim…

Port Workers’ Strike Suspended. Workers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) paused a brief three-day strike this week after reaching a tentative wage agreement with the group representing shippers and employers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. The tentative agreement reportedly will provide workers a 62 percent wage increase over six years. The…

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• Illinois’s new AI regulations under HB 3773 take effect on January 1, 2026, giving employers a limited window to prepare for compliance.
• The law broadly defines “artificial intelligence” to include any machine-based system that generates outputs influencing employment decisions, with no specific exemptions provided.
• Employers must provide notice to employees if AI is

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• The FTC recently reaffirmed guidance issued in 2012 that takes the position that hashing, which is a process to convert data (such as your name or a password) into a string of characters and numbers to mask the original data, does not constitute “anonymization” of that data.
• To support that conclusion, the FTC

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• EU published the final AI Act, setting it into force on August 1, 2024.
• The legislation treats employers’ use of AI in the workplace as potentially high-risk and imposes obligations for their use and potential penalties for violations.
• The legislation will be incrementally implemented over the next three years.

The AI Act will…