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Navigating AI in HR Balancing Innovation, Compliance, and Accountability

Navigating AI in HR: Balancing Innovation, Compliance, and Accountability

Employers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence and automated decision-making (ADS) tools for human resources functions. They are valuable tools for HR professionals, and should be an integral aspect of the HR operations of today and the future. Consequently, it should be no surprise to employer lawyers that our clients will be held liable when discriminatory

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Unlock Stress-Free HR: Discover the Benefits of Synergy Human Resources’ Care Plan Subscription

Unlock Stress-Free HR: Discover the Benefits of Synergy Human Resources’ Care Plan Subscription

Synergy Human Resources has been offering an HR care plan subscription for several years.  A subscription will help you take the worry out of managing your HR.  Our HR care plan is affordable, easy to access, reliable and convenient. You will receive well over 35 years of HR and employment law knowledge. We will get

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Minnesota’s New Break Laws Effective January 1, 2026: What Employers Need to Know and Unanswered Questions

Minnesota’s New Break Laws Effective January 1, 2026: What Employers Need to Know and Unanswered Questions

Starting January 1, 2026, Minnesota employers must allow expanded breaks to all employees in Minnesota. Currently, employers are only required to provide “sufficient time to eat a meal” every eight hours of work, and “adequate time from work” to use the nearest restroom every four hours. This will change to a thirty-minute meal break when

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Minnesota Passes Major Employment Laws Impacting All Minnesota Employers

Very recently the Minnesota legislature and Gov. Tim Walz have passed two major laws that will substantively impact all Minnesota employers. First, recreational marijuana is now legal effective July 1, 2023. Secondly, the separate Omnibus Jobs bill contains two of the most significant new features of these laws. It will require employers to provide paid

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