Roundup: ADA, video calls and perfume; DEI incentive compensation; AI and human ‘oversight;’ CA noncompetes; CA fast food minimum wages
Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review
Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.
Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics.
This week we're answering the questions:
- Can making people turn video on for work calls violate the ADA?
- How can we tie DEI goals to leadership's incentive compensation?
- Does human oversight really protect against AI bias?
- Can California ignore noncompetes entered into in other states?
- What is the new minimum wage in California for fast food workers?
- Want fries with that?
Smelly Messes and Bad Advice
This is a great piece by one of my favorite employment lawyers, Robin Shea. She explains how the ADA can affect your policies or practices on things like whether cameras should be on or off for video calls and wearing strong scents to work.
How to Get DEI Incentive Compensation Right
While advising caution, this article does a great job of explaining how to create an effective incentive compensation policy tied to DEI goals. The short version is: Keep the goals broad and the plan focused on addressing historic discrimination and improving business.
The Problem with Human Oversight of AI
The only way to mitigate the risks of human bias is to be curious, care about who we may harm, ask hard questions, and monitor the information our tools are giving us and the outcomes they are contributing to.
Human oversight is only as good as the data, questions, and humans involved.
Don't Even Try to Enforce a Noncompete in California
California has amended its noncompete laws. Again.
I'm not too concerned about legal challenges but I agree there will no doubt be some. And there are some noteworthy changes in the amendments, but only one is a big deal..
New CA Minimum Wages. Want Fries with That?
There are few, if any, places in the US where people can afford to live on a job that pays minimum wage. It's worse in California.
So, it's not a surprise that California recently raised its minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr. After reading this great piece explaining the new law, I really need a cheeseburger and fries.
