BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5831-a58db711adec7b1c497f001cc682fdda@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260524T212015Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T163000 SUMMARY:Richard Bales: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace DESCRIPTION:\nThe School of Labor and Employment Relations will host Ric hard Bales (Professor of Law\, Pettit College of Law\, Ohio Northern Uni versity) \;as part of our Speaker Series. Bales \;will be presen ting "\;Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace\,"\; on Thursda y\, February 13th during our Common Hour (3:15 &ndash\; 4:30 p.m.) in 50 2 Keller Building.\n\nEmployers and others who hire or engage workers to perform services use a dizzying array of electronic mechanisms to make personnel decisions about hiring\, worker evaluation\, compensation\, di scipline\, and retention. These electronic mechanisms include electronic trackers\, surveillance cameras\, metabolism monitors\, wearable biolog ical measuring devices\, and implantable technology. With these tools\, employers can record their workers&rsquo\; every movement\, listen in on their conversations\, measure minute aspects of performance\, and detec t oppositional organizing activities. The data collected is transformed by means of artificial intelligence (A-I) algorithms into a permanent el ectronic resume that can identify and predict an individual&rsquo\;s per formance as well as their work ethic\, personality\, union proclivity\, employer loyalty\, and future health care costs. The electronic resume p roduced by A-I will accompany workers from job to job as they move aroun d the boundaryless workplace. Thus A-I and electronic monitoring produce an invisible electronic web that threatens to invade worker privacy\, d eter unionization\, enable subtle forms of employer blackballing\, exace rbate employment discrimination\, render unions ineffective\, and oblite rate the protections of the labor laws.\n\nRick Bales is a faculty membe r at Ohio Northern University Law (visiting at Akron Law 2018-20). He te aches a wide variety of ADR and labor/employment courses\, Torts\, and C ivil Procedure. He has published more than eighty scholarly articles and authored or co-authored eight books on a variety of topics related to l abor/employment/ADR. His most recent book is Cambridge Handbook of US La bor Law: Reinventing Labor Law for the 21st Century (co-edited with Char lotte Garden). In addition to teaching and writing\, Bales is a part-tim e labor arbitrator. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrator s and serves on FMCS and AAA panels.\n\nFor more details: https://events .la.psu.edu/event/richard_bales_artificial_intelligence_in_the_workplace / X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The School of L abor and Employment Relations will host Richard Bales (Professor of Law, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University) as part of our Sp eaker Series. Bales will be presenting "Artificial Intelligenc e in the Workplace," on Thursday, February 13th during our Common H our (3:15 – 4:30 p.m.) in 502 Keller Building.

Employer s and others who hire or engage workers to perform services use a dizzyi ng array of electronic mechanisms to make personnel decisions about hiri ng, worker evaluation, compensation, discipline, and retention. These el ectronic mechanisms include electronic trackers, surveillance cameras, m etabolism monitors, wearable biological measuring devices, and implantab le technology. With these tools, employers can record their workers&rsqu o; every movement, listen in on their conversations, measure minute aspe cts of performance, and detect oppositional organizing activities. The d ata collected is transformed by means of artificial intelligence (A-I) a lgorithms into a permanent electronic resume that can identify and predi ct an individual’s performance as well as their work ethic, person ality, union proclivity, employer loyalty, and future health care costs. The electronic resume produced by A-I will accompany workers from job t o job as they move around the boundaryless workplace. Thus A-I and elect ronic monitoring produce an invisible electronic web that threatens to i nvade worker privacy, deter unionization, enable subtle forms of employe r blackballing, exacerbate employment discrimination, render unions inef fective, and obliterate the protections of the labor laws.

Ri ck Bales is a faculty member at Ohio Northern University Law (visiting a t Akron Law 2018-20). He teaches a wide variety of ADR and labor/employm ent courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. He has published more than eigh ty scholarly articles and authored or co-authored eight books on a varie ty of topics related to labor/employment/ADR. His most recent book is Ca mbridge Handbook of US Labor Law: Reinventing Labor Law for the 21st Cen tury (co-edited with Charlotte Garden). In addition to teaching and writ ing, Bales is a part-time labor arbitrator. He is a member of the Nation al Academy of Arbitrators and serves on FMCS and AAA panels.

For m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/r ichard_bales_artificial_intelligence_in_the_workplace/

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