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02.23.24

The post-pandemic “new normal” is still in flux, stress-testing workplace identity and issues faster than ever. Here are the employment and labor law trends and tactics sure to shape the new year.

Attorneys across our nationally recognized practices and industry groups bring their excellence and experience to the employment + labor law issues sure to shape the new year.

Artificial intelligence keeps iterating. Customer data collection and use techniques keep expanding. Through it all, the lines for preserving personhood and jobs and optimizing efficiency and resources in the workplace are being drawn — and underlined.

2024: The Year Ahead for Employers

What We’re Watching…

Technology and Its Effect on Employees: AI + Data Privacy

People make the workplace — or break it. For employers, it remains a business imperative to promote an equitable and inclusive workplace — this is good business.

Caring for Your Culture in the DEI + ESG Era

The PWFA and the Groff decision will continue to shake-up employers’ operations. The resulting range of accommodations requested are almost as varied as the individuals who seek them. How can employers effectively manage the responses without the exceptions dominating the rule?

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Getting Comfortable with Expanded Accommodations + Leaves

Labor + the Evolving Nature of Work

Pay Equity + Transparency

NLRB Changes Impacting both Union and Non-Union Employers

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Challenges to DEI Initiatives

New Laws Going into Effect January 2024

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In Your Hands: Greater Access thru Tech Enabled Tools

Our attorneys’ insights are also available in live and interactive settings. Click below for our current calendar of topical webinars, special events and speaking engagements.

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Employers need proactive strategies and business solutions that reduce workplace law risk. At Jackson Lewis, we don’t just tell you what’s legal — we tell you what’s effective.

We’ll be delivering our know-how and elevating our value-add even more efficiently in the new year. 2024 is when our proprietary, state of the art systems — developed and used by and for our attorneys — become available for you to use directly from the desktop. First up for client consideration: CHECKIT VIA JL (employment requirements compliance), INSIGHT VIA JL (matter management) and PATHWAY VIA JL (business immigration case management).

- Diversity, Inclusion and Bias and Wellness - Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Prevention - Leadership and Management Skills

- Human Resources and Employee Relations - Managing a Remote Workforce - Labor Relations

©2024 Jackson Lewis P.C. This material is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to constitute legal advice nor does it create a client-lawyer relationship between Jackson Lewis and any recipient. Recipients should consult with counsel before taking any actions based on the information contained within this material. This material may be considered attorney advertising in some jurisdictions. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Focused on labor and employment law since 1958, Jackson Lewis P.C.'s 1,000+ attorneys located in major cities nationwide consistently identify and respond to new ways workplace law intersects business. We help employers develop proactive strategies, strong policies and business-oriented solutions to cultivate high-functioning workforces that are engaged, stable and diverse, and share our clients' goals to emphasize inclusivity and respect for the contribution of every employee.

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Employee training should evolve with the workplace. Never a one and done, and hardly one size fits all, you need training programs that keep current with your challenges. Jackson Lewis’ custom, audience-specific content uniquely aligns your current corporate and industry culture with existing legal requirements and emerging rationales across all employment and labor issues. We offer in-person trainings, simulations, case studies, confidential executive sessions, and online webinars with real-time Q&A in the following areas and more:

- Diversity, Inclusion and Bias and Wellness - Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Prevention - Leadership and Management Skills

- Human Resources and Employee Relations - Managing a Remote Workforce - Labor Relations

Reducing salary inequities and discrimination through pay transparency and pay equity initiatives remains a challenge. The ever-evolving and increasingly varied range of jurisdictional approaches isn’t helping.

From new qualified retirement plan requirements to calls for flexible family-planning options and increasing compliance considerations for health and welfare plans, providing comprehensive employee benefits is an exercise in balancing preference and practicality.

A near doubling of EEOC systemic discrimination lawsuits, the multipronged attack on non-competes, and wage and hour collective actions continuing apace all indicate that implementing initiatives in the new year is going to take more than good intentions.

Healthcare | New recruitment and retention tools Construction | What construction employers can expect from the Labor Board and OSHA "Labor Relations Manufacturing | The Challenge of AI in Manufacturing Hospitality; Hotels + Restaurants | 2024 trends in the hospitality industry, including the use of robotics, service animals and the PWFA. Retail | 2024 trends in wage and hour exemption status, safety and labor Higher Ed | ESG Audits in the Post Students for Fair Admissions World

Healthcare | New recruitment and retention tools Construction | What construction employers can expect from the Labor Board and OSHA Manufacturing | The Challenges of AI

Hospitality; Hotels + Restaurants | 2024 trends in the hospitality industry, including the use of robotics, service animals and the PWFA. Retail | 2024 trends in wage and hour exemption status, safety and labor Higher Ed | ESG Audits in the Post Students for Fair Admissions World

With the DOL’s proposed white-collar exemption rule and NLRB’s pendulum-shifting new joint-employer rule, among others, shaping and structuring a workforce for competitive advantage has rarely been more challenging.

What We're Watching…

Industry Podcasts

Tech Tools

As artificial intelligence continues iterating, becoming more real and responsive, more intentional and integrated into the workplace, the lines for preserving personhood and jobs and optimizing efficiency and resources are being drawn—and underlined.

What We're Watching…

Industry Podcasts

Tech Tools

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AAP/OFCCP

Employee Benefits

Disability, Leave and Health Management

DEI

ESG

Employee Wellness

Hospitality

Higher Education

Healthcare

Pay Equity

Manufacturing

Labor

Technology: AI

Retail

Restrictive Covenants

Workplace Safety

AAP/OFCCP

AAP/OFCCP

Accommodations

DEI

Construction

DEI

ESG Audits

ESG in the Boardroom

Healthcare

Higher Education

Hospitality

Labor

Manufacturing

Pay Equity

Restrictive Covenants

Retail

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Our attorneys’ insights are also available in live and interactive settings. Click below for our current calendar of topical webinars, special events and speaking engagements.

Learn It Live: Upcoming Events

The Year Ahead 2024 Audio Guide

Workplace Safety