June 06, 2024
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Category: Artificial Intelligence

Colorado First State To Enact Expansive Law Governing Workplace Use of High Risk AI Systems

Colorado has enacted a first-of-its-kind state law (SB 24-205) that establishes comprehensive compliance obligations for covered employers that use high-risk artificial intelligence systems to assist in employment-related decisions. Subject to numerous exceptions, the statute defines “high-risk” AI systems as artificial intelligence systems that make or are a substantial factor in making a consequential decision. The statute defines a "consequential decision”...
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May 29, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: May 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents a round-up of employment-related state and local laws that have come to its attention since its last update in April. Topics involving more than one state include paid leave in Illinois, Maryland, and New York; and the addition of protected classes to equal pay laws in both Maryland...
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May 13, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Washington State’s Pay Transparency Law Is Spurring Litigation

Two recent lawsuits brought under Washington state’s salary range disclosure law offer insights into various possible outcomes under the statute as lawsuits begin playing out in court. In Atkinson v. Aaron’s LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a job applicant’s claim, finding that he lacked standing to sue because he had not suffered a...
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April 16, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: April 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents its most recent Interstate memo to help its members stay on top of ever-evolving state and local workplace compliance developments. CWC’s latest update of employment-related state and local laws covers notable developments since February. Topics involving more than one state included paid leave and the posting of required...
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March 26, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Eleventh Circuit Rules Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” Cannot Be Enforced Against DEI Training

Florida still cannot enforce its Individual Freedom Act, nicknamed the “Stop WOKE Act,” after a federal appeals court upheld a federal district court’s preliminary injunction. In Honeyfund v. Florida, 11th Cir. (March 4, 2024), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...
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February 26, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: February 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents its latest update of workplace-related state and local developments that have occurred since its December 2023 Interstate memo and the 2023 round-up that it published in January. Many of the laws discussed relate to new state or local provisions regarding paid leave and pay transparency. CWC members can read...
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February 22, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The new version covers the rules for filing 2023 calendar year data, which must be submitted to California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) by May 8, 2024. CWC’s guide provides tips on identifying the data that must be...
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February 06, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Includes Revised Guidance, Data Specifications

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has opened California’s mandated Pay Data Reporting cycle for calendar year 2023. New requirements are likely to increase the burden on covered employers. They still must report the total number of workers by race, ethnicity, sex, pay band, and federal EEO-1 job category, but within that total, employers now also must identify three additional data...
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January 17, 2024
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Category: Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Federal Court Cements Ban On California’s Latest Attempt To Outlaw Employment Arbitration

California cannot prohibit employers from requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, under a federal court order entered January 2, 2024. The permanent injunction came in a lawsuit from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenging a 2019 California law that effectively barred mandatory arbitration of employment disputes. The order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
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January 11, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

CWC’s Round-Up of Notable 2023 State and Local Employment Law Developments

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a year-end digest of notable state and local employment law developments on which we reported during 2023.  The digest briefly describes the issues and links to related CWC memos that discuss the issues in more detail. If a state is not listed, that means CWC did not...
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