Welcome in, today is Friday, September eleventh, and we begin with a Gartner forecast, carried by HRD Canada and Computerworld, that nearly a third of AI-driven job cuts will have to be reversed. Thirty percent of positions eliminated in AI-related layoffs will need to be refilled by twenty twenty-nine, often at significantly higher cost, according to a Gartner forecast reported by HRD Canada and Computerworld. Gartner's Tori Paulman told Computerworld the figure is an average across organizations and that the enterprise rate runs closer to forty percent. The forecast argues these cuts deplete talent pipelines and erode institutional knowledge, and it lands as AI has become the leading cited reason for US job cuts, named in more than one hundred sixteen thousand announcements since January, per Challenger, Gray and Christmas data in the HRD Canada account. The same reporting adds a second projection: by twenty twenty-seven, three quarters of organizations that book AI gains as cost savings will be eclipsed by rivals reinvesting them in upskilling. Other analysts quoted by Computerworld questioned the methodology behind the thirty percent figure while agreeing the cuts ran too deep, and some in the trade reframe the story as a loss of institutional judgment rather than a headcount error. Either way, it reads straight through to any workforce plan built on automation savings. Also today, California has passed a bill barring employers from using AI to track employee emotions or neural data at work, HR Executive reports. If it becomes law, employers in the state would need to inventory any workplace AI that infers emotion or reads neural data, and per that outlet's read, HR teams in other states may face the same check if the measure becomes a template. Reaction among workplace-tech commenters leans toward calling the bill narrow, since keystroke logging, camera monitoring and sentiment analysis of internal messaging would remain permitted, and a few note the per-violation penalty is modest relative to enterprise budgets. Separately, the EEOC has asked a federal judge in the Northern District of California to enforce an administrative subpoena in its investigation of DEI training mandated by the City and County of San Francisco, HR Dive reports. The September third filing alleges the city delayed and hampered a probe into a former Department of Public Health employee's race and sex discrimination charge. That employee says she was directed to attend sixteen four-hour anti-racism seminars run by an outside contractor, and the agency alleges the instructor made repeated derogatory statements about White people and White women. Per that filing, the city still had not produced the curriculum, an attendee database, or records of investigations into the instructor by mid-August. The city attorney's office says it plans to oppose the motion. It follows similar EEOC subpoena actions involving Nike and Northwestern Mutual, and practitioner reaction leans toward a compliance point rather than the politics: training content, including vendor material, is treated as discoverable, so review and retain it before purchase. In the UK, right-to-work checks extend beyond the direct employment relationship from October to cover agency workers, contractors and other non-employees, according to a Personnel Today guide for HR teams. That read leaves employers whose checking processes stop at payroll a matter of weeks to widen them. Practitioner commentary, though thin, tends to broaden the frame: some flag that the October change arrives alongside adjustments to how digital verification services are used and how employers confirm the person who turns up is the one actually checked, which would make the lift procedural as well as scope-based. Now, a few more headlines moving the trade today. Following our earlier report on expectations for the August payrolls, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data came in at one hundred sixty-two thousand jobs added, with women accounting for roughly ninety-eight percent of the gain and unemployment holding at four point one percent, per The Post Millennial and The Daily Wire. Red Rock Casino must recognize and bargain with the Culinary Union after Chief Justice John Roberts denied its request to stay an NLRB order while its appeal continues, Yogonet reports. Channel Four is expected to announce around three hundred job losses today in a cost-cutting restructure, per Personnel Today, whose headline puts the figure at three hundred forty. Williams-Sonoma is directing ten million dollars toward the retirement accounts of workers who helped it navigate tariffs and reimbursing vendors for earlier discounts, HR Dive reports. And finally, job-switchers in Canada and the US are out-earning those who stay, according to a report covered by HRD Canada, where one expert says job-changers are highly sensitive to real-time economic conditions.