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Techday NZ
16-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Safeguard Global to tackle AI & HR risks in LinkedIn Live event
Safeguard Global is set to host a LinkedIn Live event focusing on the challenges of managing global workforce risks in the context of artificial intelligence adoption. The event coincides with International HR Day and will examine the intersection of AI technologies and human resource management on a global scale. This year's theme, "Humanify AI," emphasises balancing technological advances with human judgement and expertise in overseeing international workforces. As AI integration continues across sectors, human resources professionals are reporting new pressures to use automation while maintaining ethical standards and adaptability within their organisations. The event aims to address this dual challenge by discussing shifts in HR practice, from AI-powered recruitment workflows to the rise of virtual HR agents. Katherine Loranger, Chief People Officer at Safeguard Global, highlighted the enduring importance of human contributions in the face of technological change. She said, "AI is changing how work gets done — but not why it matters. International HR Day is the perfect moment to celebrate the people behind the systems — the ones guiding organisations through both innovation and uncertainty." The conversation is described as particularly timely for HR leaders currently navigating significant changes in the field. Recent developments, such as IBM's increased reliance on automation in HR roles and Moderna's strategy to combine HR with digital leadership, have illustrated that human guidance remains crucial despite technological advancements. During the upcoming LinkedIn Live session, Loranger will be joined by Triana Palomo, Employer of Record (EOR) Customer Advisor at Safeguard Global. The discussion will cover several topics, including the evolving responsibilities of HR professionals as AI redefines traditional processes, the continued necessity for human-centred expertise, and the practical risks associated with global workforce management. The event will also include insights into real-world scenarios where compliance and strategic planning play a critical role in successfully navigating the changing landscape of work. In addition, Loranger and Palomo are expected to discuss the EOR model's relevance as companies seek agility in an increasingly regulated and complex global labour market. Safeguard Global's event, titled "Human When It Matters: Navigating Global Workforce Risks in an AI Era," will take place on the company's LinkedIn platform. Attendees are encouraged to follow Safeguard Global on LinkedIn for notifications about the event. Safeguard Global operates in nearly 190 countries, assisting organisations with hiring, payroll, benefits, tax, and mobility functions while supporting compliance in diverse regulatory environments. The company's platform is supported by local experts who provide direct assistance in more than 65 countries. The session is positioned as a forum for HR leaders, industry practitioners, and stakeholders interested in understanding the practical realities of AI adoption and risk management within multinational workforces. Topics will include safeguarding ethical standards, maintaining compliance, and the broader implications of automation for the human resources profession.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Legal experts say beware as Delta offers $30,000 with ‘no strings attached' to passengers on Toronto flight that crash-landed
Delta offered passengers on the plane that crash landed in Toronto a $30,000 payout that was lauded by PR experts. Yet, legal experts say the move should be commended only if it really comes 'with no strings attached' as Delta says it does. Passengers should be cautious about the fine print of any agreement they sign and shouldn't be afraid to pursue litigation against the company, the experts added. After a Delta plane crashed in Toronto, the airline quickly offered affected passengers $30,000 payments with 'no strings attached,' yet legal experts say passengers should be cautious nonetheless about accepting the payment. A spokesperson for Delta confirmed to Fortune the $30,000 payment offered to passengers came with 'no strings attached and does not affect rights.' But the payment likely won't be as simple as sending a check, and passengers should be cautious about the fine print of any agreement they sign, said John Carpenter, personal injury attorney and cofounder of Carpenter & Zuckerman Law Firm. 'They're going to ask them to sign something, an acknowledgement, and then what you find very often is you'll check a box for terms of use,' Carpenter told Fortune. If asked to sign an agreement, passengers should search for words such as "release," "waiver," "setoff," "reimbursable," "assignment," "confidentiality," "non-disparagement," and 'arbitration,' among others, said Carpenter. These words could indicate the document is more than a simple receipt of funds, he said, and passengers should seek the advice of an attorney. Although the $30,000 may seem generous, it might not compare to the costs that could come with more serious injuries passengers may have incurred, said aviation attorney Timothy A. Loranger of Los Angeles-based mass disaster law firm Wisner Baum. 'All passengers likely experienced emotional distress, with some suffering severe psychological trauma due to the terrifying nature of the crash,' Loranger told Fortune. 'For those with significant injuries, $30,000 may be grossly inadequate and far from full compensation.' However, accepting a payment from Delta shouldn't preclude passengers from pursuing further damages through litigation, Loranger added. If the payment is genuinely meant to help out the affected customers, Delta should be applauded, Carpenter said, but passengers shouldn't look to close the book on their case against the company so soon. Passengers can develop both mental and physical injuries later on that should be taken into account when considering any settlement with the airline, he added. 'You never want to resolve a case until you have evaluated what your injuries are, short-term and long-term,' Carpenter said. The Delta flight, operated by Endeavor Air, was carrying 76 passengers and four crew members from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to Toronto, Canada, when it flipped over upon landing Monday. Although no one was killed, 21 passengers were injured. As of Thursday all injured passengers had been released from the hospital, according to Delta. Because the flight was international, according to the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, the airline would owe at least $20,000 for each passenger who died, The New York Times reported. The payment offered to injured passengers is at the discretion of the airline and doesn't mean they admit liability. If a passenger wins compensation in a future lawsuit, the airline's payment would be deducted from the overall payout. The $30,000 payment Delta offered passengers is purposefully large and a shrewd PR maneuver, said Amanda Orr, the founder of legal and political communications firm Orr Strategy Group. 'By them offering the money, it gives the public an idea that they do care about their passengers, that they would like to make this right,' Orr told Fortune. 'It's a very positive thing that they did.' Although it's likely few of the passengers will accept the money and will work with lawyers, offering it up could still help indirectly cushion Delta against lawsuits, Orr said. 'If any passenger accepts the money, [Delta] are at reduced legal risk because somebody who accepts that money could be less inclined to sue,' Orr said. 'It's just good damage control all around.' This story was originally featured on
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
DC plane crash: Military aircraft collisions raise questions about training and equipment, expert says
U.S. military helicopter crashes like the one that took down a commercial American Airlines flight over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night are very rare, but there has been an uptick in these incidents in recent years, according to military statistics and an aviation expert. A total of 64 people, including passengers and flight crew members, were aboard AA Flight 5342 from Wichita to Reagan National Airport (DCA). Three soldiers were conducting a training operation on the Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk that came from Fort Belvoir in Virginia. "It's concerning, certainly, the number of incidents that there have been," Timothy Loranger, an aviation attorney at Wisner Baum and a Marine Corps veteran, told Fox News Digital. "But if you compare it to the thousands and thousands of hours of flights that occur without any incident … that's all very good." The collision has sparked questions about how such a devastating accident could happen in one of the most tightly controlled airspaces in the country and the world. The last significant fatal commercial crash happened in 2009, when a Continental Airlines flight crashed into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people. Dc Plane Crash Timeline: Midair Collision Involves 67 Passengers, Crew Members, Soldiers "Is there something that we can point to? Training? Is the budget of the military sufficient to make sure that pilots and the crew have enough training and experience in order to fly those aircraft?" Loranger said. "Those are the kinds of questions that have to be asked. If it's a problem with the aircraft itself, a mechanical issue, what is that? Is it a design issue? Is it a manufacturing issue? Is it a maintenance issue?" Read On The Fox News App Military helicopter crashes, while uncommon, have been occurring more frequently over the last year, according to Army data. American Airlines Plane, Army Helicopter Collide Outside Reagan National Airport Near Washington Dc Fiscal year 2024 had the most severe aviation incidents that resulted in fatalities since fiscal year 2014 and the worst rate of deaths and severe injuries from incidents per 100,000 hours since fiscal year 2007, according to Army statistics. Fox News counted at least 10 deaths from U.S. military helicopter crashes alone in 2024, including five Marines in the same aircraft, and multiple others injured. Since 2012, there have been 21 Black Hawk crash deaths. Dc Plane Crash Air Traffic Control Audio Reveals Moment Controllers Saw Disaster: 'Tower Did You See That?' Loranger called the uptick in military helicopter deaths last year "concerning." WATCH: VIDEO SHOWS MIDAIR PLANE CRASH Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that officials "will get to the bottom of what happened here." "It's completely unacceptable in our nation's capital or anywhere. The military trains, and it trains robustly. And we're not going to stop training, even though there's a pause on this unit, on this exercise, which is an important one. And we should have that pause until we get to the bottom of this," Hegseth said. "…We have to train safely. Something like this can never happen. And it's completely unacceptable." WATCH: HEGSETH VOWS TO DELIVER ANSWERS The instructor pilot in charge who was flying the Black Hawk on Wednesday for a training operation apparently had 1,000 flying hours, which is considered very experienced, and the co-pilot who was also being evaluated had 500 flying hours, which is considered an average amount of experience, according to a U.S. official who spoke to Fox News. "This is a relatively easy route," an Army chief warrant officer five with decades of experience flying Army helicopters told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday. The pilot was flying down the center of the river, which is generally dark, likely wearing night vision goggles. Memorial Bridge would have been their last checkpoint. Reagan National Airport Crash: Military Black Hawk Helicopter Collides Midair With American Airlines Jet Military and other government helicopters fly the same route almost daily, the senior Army pilot and warrant officer told reporters. "This should not have been a problem," the official said. Loranger described DCA as "a very complicated airspace, very busy airspace." "There's a lot of airplanes and aircraft flying in and out," he said, adding that planes have systems in place designed to help give information to pilots about pilots or other objects flying nearby to avoid collisions like the one on Wednesday. It might have been difficult for the commercial airplane and the Black Hawk to see each other at night over the river, Loranger said. Staffing at the air control tower at DCA was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report reviewed by The New York Times. Victims Identified In Dc Plane Crash Involving American Airlines Jet And Military Helicopter The controller who was handling helicopters Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from the airport runways, the Times reported. Those assignments are typically assigned to two controllers. "I don't know exactly how the staffing occurred in that particular air traffic control tower," Hegseth told "Fox & Friends." "It sounds like there was a shortage [of controllers], and the investigation will tell us more about that. But the environment around which we choose pilots or air traffic controllers, as the president pointed out correctly yesterday, better be the highest possible standard — the best of the best who are managing … a flight a minute and managing radio traffic." Fox News Digital has reached out to the FAA. The air control tower at Reagan Airport has been understaffed for years with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023. The FFA and controllers' union, however, called for 30 controllers in its staffing targets. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, Liz Friden and Louis Casiano contributed to this article source: DC plane crash: Military aircraft collisions raise questions about training and equipment, expert says
Fox News
31-01-2025
- General
- Fox News
DC plane crash: Military aircraft collisions raise questions about training and equipment, expert says
U.S. military helicopter crashes like the one that took down a commercial American Airlines flight over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night are very rare, but there has been an uptick in these incidents in recent years, according to military statistics and an aviation expert. A total of 64 people, including passengers and flight crew members, were aboard AA Flight 5342 from Wichita to Reagan National Airport (DCA). Three soldiers were conducting a training operation on the Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk that came from Fort Belvoir in Virginia. "It's concerning, certainly, the number of incidents that there have been," Timothy Loranger, an aviation attorney at Wisner Baum and a Marine Corps veteran, told Fox News Digital. "But if you compare it to the thousands and thousands of hours of flights that occur without any incident … that's all very good." The collision has sparked questions about how such a devastating accident could happen in one of the most tightly controlled airspaces in the country and the world. The last significant fatal commercial crash happened in 2009, when a Continental Airlines flight crashed into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people. "Is there something that we can point to? Training? Is the budget of the military sufficient to make sure that pilots and the crew have enough training and experience in order to fly those aircraft?" Loranger said. "Those are the kinds of questions that have to be asked. If it's a problem with the aircraft itself, a mechanical issue, what is that? Is it a design issue? Is it a manufacturing issue? Is it a maintenance issue?" Military helicopter crashes, while uncommon, have been occurring more frequently over the last year, according to Army data. Fiscal year 2024 had the most severe aviation incidents that resulted in fatalities since fiscal year 2014 and the worst rate of deaths and severe injuries from incidents per 100,000 hours since fiscal year 2007, according to Army statistics. Fox News counted at least 10 deaths from U.S. military helicopter crashes alone in 2024, including five Marines in the same aircraft, and multiple others injured. Since 2012, there have been 21 Black Hawk crash deaths. Loranger called the uptick in military helicopter deaths last year "concerning." WATCH: VIDEO SHOWS MIDAIR PLANE CRASH Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that officials "will get to the bottom of what happened here." "It's completely unacceptable in our nation's capital or anywhere. The military trains, and it trains robustly. And we're not going to stop training, even though there's a pause on this unit, on this exercise, which is an important one. And we should have that pause until we get to the bottom of this," Hegseth said. "…We have to train safely. Something like this can never happen. And it's completely unacceptable." WATCH: HEGSETH VOWS TO DELIVER ANSWERS The instructor pilot in charge who was flying the Black Hawk on Wednesday for a training operation apparently had 1,000 flying hours, which is considered very experienced, and the co-pilot who was also being evaluated had 500 flying hours, which is considered an average amount of experience, according to a U.S. official who spoke to Fox News. "This is a relatively easy route," an Army chief warrant officer five with decades of experience flying Army helicopters told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday. The pilot was flying down the center of the river, which is generally dark, likely wearing night vision goggles. Memorial Bridge would have been their last checkpoint. Military and other government helicopters fly the same route almost daily, the senior Army pilot and warrant officer told reporters. "This should not have been a problem," the official said. Loranger described DCA as "a very complicated airspace, very busy airspace." "There's a lot of airplanes and aircraft flying in and out," he said, adding that planes have systems in place designed to help give information to pilots about pilots or other objects flying nearby to avoid collisions like the one on Wednesday. It might have been difficult for the commercial airplane and the Black Hawk to see each other at night over the river, Loranger said. Staffing at the air control tower at DCA was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from the airport runways, the Times reported. Those assignments are typically assigned to two controllers. "I don't know exactly how the staffing occurred in that particular air traffic control tower," Hegseth told "Fox & Friends." "It sounds like there was a shortage [of controllers], and the investigation will tell us more about that. But the environment around which we choose pilots or air traffic controllers, as the president pointed out correctly yesterday, better be the highest possible standard — the best of the best who are managing … a flight a minute and managing radio traffic." Fox News Digital has reached out to the FAA. The air control tower at Reagan Airport has been understaffed for years with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023. The FFA and controllers' union, however, called for 30 controllers in its staffing targets.
