ESG: How Data Privacy Relates to Good Governance Practices
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Organizations implementing ESG strategies are focused on managing their companies in ways that are ethical, transparent, and responsible to stakeholders. Equally important is implementing good governance practices, including managing privacy compliance and risk.
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What You Need to Know About the OFCCP: Part 1 – 2023 Year in Review
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In 2023, the OFCCP demonstrated renewed vigor in audits, recovering $17.3 million from federal contractors for alleged hiring and compensation discrimination. It also was a year of churn, challenge, and change.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Workplace Safety
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OSHA’s revised electronic recordkeeping requirements went into effect January 1 and the agency’s new proposed rule on third-party representatives participating in walk-around inspections looms. Jackson Lewis Workplace Safety and Health practice co-leaders and discuss the OSHA compliance issues on the horizon for enforcement that will impact many employers this year.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Technology: AI
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The tech theme for 2024 is more regulation. Jackson Lewis of counsel and principal tell you what you need to know to make AI work for you amid the rising U.S. and global pressures to regulate — and the attendant enforcement efforts sure to follow.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Retail
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, head of Jackson Lewis’ Retail industry group; , co-leader of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health practice; and principal , a wage and hour practitioner, discuss the continuing labor renaissance and the need to focus on employee happiness and organizational wellness. Other topics include OSHA’s national emphasis program targeting retailers with warehouses and distribution centers, and the immediate impact and risks involved with how retailers absorb increased labor costs due to minimum wage increases.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Restrictive Covenants
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Having helped employers make it through one of the most active years in restrictive covenant law, Jackson Lewis co-leaders of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition practice and share what to expect for 2024. For starters, the multi-pronged attack on non-competes will likely continue along with more litigation involving other provisions and claims.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Pay Equity
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The biggest legislative movement in pay equity will continue to be transparency — especially at state and local levels. Jackson Lewis Pay Equity resource group co-leads and pull together the expanding patchwork of pay equity state law trends to help employers get a better sense of the emerging standards sure to affect operations and compensation approaches.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Manufacturing
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Jackson Lewis Manufacturing industry group co-chairs and bring their combined 55 years of experience to discuss the sobering and structural challenges 2024 has in store in terms of recruitment and retention. Skill gaps and mismatches, change management, new compensation strategies, internal talent marketplaces, employee referral programs, false barriers to entry, DEI, and more are all on the horizon.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Labor
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With petition filings up 53 percent during FY2023 and an average union win rate of 71 percent for election petitions in the first half of the same period, the labor renaissance continues to heat up. Jackson Lewis principals and tell you what the increase in employee activism, protected concerted activity, and union organizing activities will mean for employers in 2024.
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The Year Ahead 2024: Hospitality
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, co-leader of Jackson Lewis’ Workplace Safety and Health practice group, talks with her colleagues, principals and , about intriguing issues for the hospitality industry to look toward in 2024, including service animals, babies, and robotic arms.
info_outlineAs we enter the third year of the pandemic, change continues to be the one constant for employers.
On this episode of The Year Ahead series, we focus on DEI in the workplace, identifying the common misconceptions and mistakes organizations may make when approaching diversity, equity and inclusion and offering best practices to ensure equitable representation and treatment in all areas of the organization.