Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 10, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a notice in the Federal Register for its “Draft Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP)” for 2023-2027 that focuses on the increasing use of automated systems such as artificial intelligence (AI) by employers in their hiring decisions. Among…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 12, 2022, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced it would postpone enforcement of Local Law 144 of 2021 which would regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) screening tools that was originally scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2023,…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Starting on January 1, 2023, New York City Local Law 144 will take effect and the City will prohibit employers and employment agencies from using certain artificial intelligence (AI) screening tools in the hiring or promotion process until the “automated employment decision tools” have been subject to a…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 13, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) hosted a virtual roundtable titled “Decoded: Can Technology Advance Equitable Recruiting and Hiring?” to discuss the civil rights implications of the use of automated…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 13, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows and U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Director Jenny R. Yang will lead a roundtable event titled “Decoded: Can Technology Advance Equitable Recruiting and Hiring?” to explore potential…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) launched an agency-wide “Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative” to ensure the use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other emerging technologies for hiring and employment decisions comply with federal civil rights laws. While AI systems may offer…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In November 2021, the New York City (NYC) Council passed a measure – Int. No. 1894-A – that will require employers that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of an automated employment decision tool to promote or screen job candidates to undergo a “bias audit” every…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Companies that rely on an automated hiring process “regularly eliminate all but those candidates who most closely match the job requirements specified” and “those workers are thus hidden from consideration by the design and implementation of the very processes that were meant to maximize a company’s access…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 8, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – a United States government agency that is the nation’s primary privacy and data security enforcer – issued guidance to businesses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for machine learning technology and automated decision making with regard…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers using automated hiring platforms powered by artificial intelligence or (AI) in the belief that they are less biased and discriminatory than humans will discover using such technology in background screening will remain a work in progress in 2020, according to the “ESR Top Ten Background Check…
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