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The 2023 Motherhood Penalty: The Sorry State Of Affairs For Working Women Continues

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In 2023, working women still confront barriers to progression in the workplace, and many will experience lower pay compared to their male counterparts. This compulsory requirement has put slightly more pressure on employers, yet the absence of any legal requirement to reduce the pay gap means that many companies remain inactive on this issue.

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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

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Generative AI, a powerful new technology, even shows promise in assisting with legal tasks like contract drafting. The original transformer model (2017) cost around $900 to train, while RoBERTa Large (2019) was $160,000. billion in private investment in 2023, nearly nine times more than China. percent in 2022.

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Freelancers Under Fire: Legislation Threatens Gig Economy Workers

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Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2023 (PRO Act) has the potential to completely alter labor law in the United States. The state law was passed in September of 2019 and was later enacted in January of 2020. These companies mounted a bold and noteworthy move through legal channels within California’s court system.

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