Roundup: EU’s AI law; Recording terminations; Musk’s compensation reduction; Weight discrimination; Pay transparency

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2.8

February 26, 2024

Salary.com 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:

  • What will the new EU law regulating the use of AI in employment decisions require?
  • Why are people recording their terminations and posting on social media?
  • Why won't Elon Musk get paid the deal he made?
  • Why is weight discrimination wrong even when it's not illegal?
  • Do pay transparency laws actually work?
  • How can I tell if pay transparency is making a difference for my organization?
February 20th, 2024
The EU is about to start regulating the use of AI in employment decisions. The requirements make sense, but I don't know if they will make a difference.
February 21th, 2024
Employees are recording their terminations and posting them on social media. It's not surprising. Between the humans, the bots, and GenAI, the internet is like a 6yr old copying his butt on the copier 9999 times. (If this seems oddly specific, it's because it happened. Butts everywhere!)
February 22th, 2024
While Tesla was making a whole lot of money, there is a line where CEO compensation becomes excessive and becomes unfair to the company and the shareholders. Apparently 55.8 billion dollars, crony directors, and the fact that it wasn't Musk's full time job crossed it. Quelle surprise.
February 23th, 2024
Humans judge each other harshly based on looks. Sure, part of this is probably based on evolution and sexual attraction, but that is not a good reason to make an employment decision.
February 26th, 2024
It will be interesting to see how laws affect pay equity. But it's always more difficult to see in the aggregate. The good news is you are only responsible for your organization and the effect of pay transparency is much easier to figure out and track there. Here's how.

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