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Walmart has asked a federal judge in New Jersey to rule that the state's law barring employers from refusing to hire job applicants because of their off-duty marijuana use can only be enforced by the state, and not individual workers, Reuters reports .

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Notably, the research also revealed that 2023 salary increase budgets averaged 4.4%, significantly more than the 4.1% increases employers projected for 2023 in the previous year’s survey.

-based employment law firm noted that employers should still review their arbitration agreements and consider carving out sexual harassment and sexual assault claims from new and existing arbitration agreements.

“Federal salaries were already transparent, and this furthers the efforts to achieve pay equity in federal government employment,” Skahan said, adding that it is possible this could lead to support of a nationwide salary history ban and/or transparency law applicable to private employers that would apply on a larger scale, as opposed to the patchwork of regulations that currently exists across the country.

Tesla to Face La wsuit Alleging Racial Discrimination and Harassment A California state court judge has denied Tesla Inc's request to throw out a lawsuit filed by the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) that accuses the electric-vehicle maker of “fostering racial discrimination and harassment at its [Fremont, Calif.] factory,” Bloomberg Law reports .

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While that lead paragraph is an alphabet soup of government acronyms, this brief article shares what this means for employers and participating plan employees.

Additionally, employers should know what data is feeding the algorithm and do their due diligence after implementation.; The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently indicated it will prioritize its investigation of the use of employment screening tools that rely on artificial intelligence (AI), or otherwise use algorithms to assist employers in making recruiting, hiring and other employment decisions.

Access a related Workspan Daily article on this subject: ;What TR Pros Can Expect with Regulations and Compliance in 2025; Looking beyond state law, U.S. employers that with a presence in Europe also need to take heed: The European Union’s Pay Transparency Directive applies both to employers headquartered in the EU and those with any EU-based employees.