From high turnover and typically younger workforces to ever-shifting state and local laws, restaurants face a unique patchwork of pay transparency compliance risks. Denver office colleague Melisa Panagakos joins podcast host Laura Mitchell to share how to check these risks from becoming significant liabilities by better auditing job postings, managing tipped positions and prioritizing compliance efforts across jurisdictions.

Welcome to We get Contracting, a series about the employment and labor issues that matter most to federal contractors. In this inaugural episode, Government Contracts and Compliance Group co-leaders Scott Pechaitis and Jeremy Schneider present the top compliance challenges facing federal contractors — OFCCP uncertainty, increased fraud enforcement, new antidiscrimination certification requirements and major FAR clause reforms — and practical steps to overcome them.

One year after the DOE's Dear Colleague Letter, institutions are still wrestling with the shifts in federal enforcement priorities redefining what Title VI compliance means. Jackson Lewis' Carol Ashley and Dani Bland highlight the potential pitfalls and strategic considerations for schools seeking to comply with changing expectations.

The business of college sports is accelerating. So are the legal questions. Labor Relations Group Co-leader Laura Pierson-Scheinberg and her colleagues, former NLRB chair Marvin Kaplan and Michael Bertoncini, discuss what college and university athletic programs can expect from increased NIL activity and athlete mobility, shifting labor law interpretations, and growing state and federal levels of involvement.

CIO of Vista Clinical Laboratory Nick DeMeo joins podcast co-hosts Eric Felsberg and Joe Lazzarotti, co-leaders of Jackson Lewis' Artificial Intelligence and Automation Group, to discuss the intersection of healthcare, cybersecurity and AI. The trio shares insights and tips on how to manage the mix of increasingly innovative and autonomous systems with human-centric governance more responsibly.

Talent mobility, specialized roles, scarce market data and other competitive pressures create unusually complex pay transparency challenges for life sciences companies. Jackson Lewis' Life Sciences Group Co-leader Peggy Strange joins podcast host Laura Mitchell to discuss how moving from pushback to preparation can address benchmarking gaps, confidentiality concerns and exception requests to protect IP and trade secrets while promoting pay transparency and pay equity compliance.

Restructuring across borders is a high-stakes challenge for multinational companies of any size. On this inaugural episode of the series, Maya Atrakchi joins L&E global colleague Florence Bacquet to break down the biggest misconceptions, risks, and best practices for U.S. companies navigating reductions in force across Europe and beyond.

Fast-evolving challenges, including telehealth transitions and health system acquisitions, are redefining pay transparency/equity expectations. In this episode, we offer healthcare employers actionable insights for harmonizing compensation and boosting workforce morale amid industry-wide change.

What if your next business call ended up training someone else's AI without you ever knowing? In this episode, we unpack the Brewer v. Otter.ai case and explore how automated note takers are reshaping privacy, legal compliance, and trust in today's workplace.

Employers shouldn't overly rely on reports that the EEOC is no longer interested in disparate impact: private lawsuits and other entities bringing such claims, both in the traditional discrimination and the emerging "illegal DEI" contexts, still pose legal risks. In this episode, our attorneys discuss disparate impact versus treatment, "job-relatedness" defenses, the role of statistics and the value of privileged disparate impact analyses, and the need for ongoing employer vigilance given the potential financial and reputational harms associated with disparate impact claims.