Roundup: OSHA safety reporting; AI and employment decisions; Background checks; DEI and affirmative action; GenAI and jobs

Beginning next year, workplace injury reporting requirements will apply to more employers and the reports will need to be filed electronically. Here's what you need to know about the new OSHA reporting rules.

AI can help you, but it's important to understand it's limits. The biggest legal issue is bias and discrimination. This is a really useful article on the challenges of using AI at work, with excellent analysis of the legal issues, practical approaches, and helpful resources.

Before you go to the time and expense of doing background checks, consider:

Here's a great explanation of the laws that apply and what else to consider when doing background checks.

Equal employment opportunity is still the law at the federal, state, and local levels. The way that employment law works is that the laws that provide the most protections to employees are the ones that generally apply. That's a lot of laws. They are not going anywhere.

This is an excellent discussion of how approach your DEI initiatives.

This is a great article that explains how GenAI may affect jobs and why it will have a bigger impact on women and people of color.

It's based on a McKinsey study that assumes that employers will replace humans with computer programs any time they can. Computers don't need heath care benefits.

I'm not sure that's right.