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Workplace Technology
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Ogletree Deakins Podcasts
Tech-Tuned Workplace, Episode 2: Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on the Workplace (Podcast)
By Jennifer Betts, Ruthie L. Goodboe
In the second episode of our “Tech-Tuned Workplace” series, Jennifer Betts, Ruthie Goodboe, and Zeb Curtin (Senior Labor & Employment Lawyer and Team Lead at Cargill) discuss artificial intelligence in…
Ogletree Deakins Podcasts
Tech-Tuned Workplace, Episode 1: Advanced Technologies (Podcast)
By Jennifer Betts, Ruthie L. Goodboe
In the first episode of our “Tech-Tuned Workplace” series, Jennifer Betts and Ruthie Goodboe provide a high-level overview of advanced technologies that already exist or are coming soon to the…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Rise of the machines in the workplace
By Lisa Stam
Here Come the Robots Is your workplace about to be automated? A recent study by McKinsey & Company suggests that about half of the activities (not jobs) carried out by…
Byte Back
“Chipped” Employees? Privacy Concerns With Technological Advancements in the Workplace
There was a recent headline-making story involving a Wisconsin employer that announced it was offering its employees the option to be microchipped to replace security badges they use regularly at…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Hacked Employment Law
Charlotte Alexander (Georgia State) and Liz Tippett (Oregon) have just posted on SSRN their article (forthcoming Missouri L. Rev.) The Hacking of Employment Law. Here's the abstract of this timely…
Employment Law Worldview
Technological advances in the workplace – enabling communication or undermining it?
Many thanks to summer vacation student Hannah Meahan for this great review of the potential human cost of new technology in the workplace. Technology has permeated our everyday lives and…
Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Webinar: Do You Know Where Your Data Is? BYOD, Social Media, and Other Workplace Tech Developments
(Canadian businesses with U.S. & international operations should consider this webinar, hosted by our colleagues in Palo Alto, California and Munich, Germany.) More and more employers are adopting Bring Your Own…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Call for LEL Papers: Washburn L.J.
The Washburn Law Journal is pleased to announce that the Spring 2013 issue of the Journal will be devoted to current scholarship in the areas of Labor and Employment Law. …
Texas Employment Law Update
New Federal Rules Takes Effect Prohibiting Hand Held Cellular Devices
The current federal administration is making significant changes in employment law through its rulemaking and regulatory authority rather than seeking Acts of Congress. Another example of this method of legislature-through-rulemaking is the new federal…
Employment & Labor
Bits and Bytes
Steve Jobs has passed away, leaving many iMourners beside themselves today. His legacy has touched many aspects of everyone’s lives, from the way they now conduct business on a tablet,…