Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 ("AI Regulation") entered into force in February 2025, establishing a further obligation for companies in connection with the use of artificial intelligence ("AI"): Ensuring AI literacy.
This article discusses what AI literacy actually means, what extent are companies subject to this obligation, and what are the consequences of non-compliance.
This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to employment and labor laws and regulations around the world.
Topics covered include terms and conditions of employment, employee representation and industrial relations, discrimination, maternity and family leave rights, and business sales.
This article discusses how Canadian employers can proactively review their workforce restructuring options to face potential upcoming challenges related to US tariffs.
The European Union’s pay transparency directive is a landmark piece of legislation for organisations with employees across the European Union. This article discusses how employers can prepare to comply with pay transparency requirements under the directive.
Employers with operations in the European Union should ensure they are familiar with a pay equity directive aiming to close the gender pay gap that will soon come fully online.
This article discusses key issues including salary transparency, employee access to information, reporting requirements, and penalties under the directive.
Pay equity and transparency have rapidly become globally important to all multinational companies wherever headquartered. This article provides an overview the EU Pay Transparency Directive and Canada pay transparency initiatives.
Pay transparency planning will take on a new urgency for many companies during 2025. In accordance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, employers with 150 workers or more must report prescribed information on their gender pay gap by June 2027.
As the significance of the obligations established under the Pay Transparency Directive (“Directive”) start to be appreciated by companies with operations in the EU, many are putting into place measures to identify the steps they will need to take.
This article considers the implications of the directive for employers. It also looks at some of the practical issues beginning to emerge.
Many countries have put in place laws and regulations aimed at reducing the gender pay gap. Learn with this selection of resources for global in-house lawyers.
This article discusses implications of US President Trump’s Executive Orders for private sector organizations regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The article offers checklists with considerations for in-house lawyers at private-sector employers.