See here for the first part of this article series: Language Is The Next Great Frontier In AI Language is at the heart of human intelligence. It therefore is and must be at the heart of our effor...

Richard Vogel/Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Battered by two years of pandemic stress, tens of thousands of Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if super...

House Passes Bill To Extend Recent Prohibition On Arbitration Of Sexual Harassment. While the 50-50 partisan split in the Senate has caused an uneven legislative road since the onset of the Biden...

SCOTUS Nomination Hearings Begin. The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held hearings this week on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of...

On February 18, 2022, a California appellate court issued the latest guidance in the continuing saga of statewide “suitable seating” litigation, cementing a significant trial victory for grocers,...

We had been holding off on publishing an update on the Illinois Equal Pay Act requirements in hopes that the State of Illinois would publish its proposed rules implementing the law. Those rules h...

This spring Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has signed into law three bills that amend the New York State Human Rights Law: Retaliation. Senate Bill S.5870 expands the definition of retaliation under the...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court just held that 7-Eleven franchisees may be employees of 7-Eleven under Massachusetts wage and hour law. The March 24 decision in Dhananjay Patel v. 7-Elev...

On March 24, 2022, Washington state Governor Inslee signed into law Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1795 (The Silenced No More Act) (“ESHB 1795”). Washington now becomes the second state (after C...

Governor Murphy Signs Legislation to Increase Pay for New Jersey’s Election Workers RENTON – Governor Murphy signed legislation (A-208) to increase pay for New Jersey’s election workers. The bill...