“The simultaneous withdrawal of federal guidance and expansion of state protections creates unprecedented compliance challenges for multi-state employers,” writes employment attorney Vanessa Kelly, member of the firm at Clark Hill.
The development of large language models (LLMs) has been defined by the pursuit of raw scale. While increasing parameter counts into the trillions initially drove performance gains, it also introduced significant infrastructure overhead and diminishing marginal utility. The release of the Qwen 3.5 M
When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we’ve seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips’ star (a digit
Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.
In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.
Vaping at work has become a common workplace issue across the UK. While smoking in enclosed workplaces is prohibited by law, electronic cigarettes fall outside the statutory smoking ban. This creates uncertainty for employers and employees alike. Can you vape indoors at work? Can an employer impose
Managing a request for annual leave is not simply an administrative task. It is a statutory compliance issue governed primarily by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), shaped by case law on holiday pay, and influenced by discrimination risk under the Equality Act 2010. Employers retain control o
The Employment Rights Act 1996 is the core statute underpinning individual employment rights in the UK. It governs written terms of employment, protection from unlawful deductions, notice periods, redundancy payments, protection from detriment, whistleblowing, flexible working and, most significantl
An employment contract defines the legal relationship between an organisation and the individuals who work for it. The type of contract used determines not only how work is structured, but also which statutory rights apply, how tax is handled, how dismissal risk is assessed and where compliance expo
CIPD research finds 22% of UK employers have not set clear objectives for the employee benefits they provide.
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