A comprehensive AI bill recently signed into law by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont will soon require transparency around AI-related layoffs and employers' use of automated systems to influence employment decisions.
Virginia has amended its noncompete agreement law to prohibit employers from entering or enforcing noncompete agreements with health care professionals.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into a law a bill regulating the use of automated decision-making technology in employment decisions - a scaled back version of an earlier law that has seen legal challenges.
Republishing the 2019 overtime rule is a technical correction accounting for changes in the law that have already occurred, the US Department of Labor said.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law a bill that will enhance pay transparency, strengthen lactation break protections and impose a number of other new requirements on employers.
Two newly-enacted Maryland laws will prohibit employers' use of "captive audience" meetings during a unionizing campaign and authorize the Public Employee Relations Board to act in place of the NLRB under certain circumstances.
Although the business community greeted them as an improvement over draft rules proposed last year, the new regulations are still expected to make it more difficult for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors.
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