On July 13, 2018, over 50 civil liberties groups, technology companies, and associations submitted a joint letter to Congress in support of the Email Privacy Act (EPA), which was recently included in the House-passed version...more
8/30/2018
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Criminal Investigations ,
Data Storage ,
e-Discovery ,
ECPA ,
Electronic Communications ,
Email ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Government Agencies ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
NDAA ,
Notice Requirements ,
Probable Cause ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Search Warrant ,
Technology Sector
Women deserve the same compensation for doing the same work as men. The concept is simple and fair: equal pay for equal work. It is also the law.
Nevertheless, pay disparities persist across industries and geographies,...more
8/7/2018
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Health Care Providers ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Gap ,
Risk Management ,
State Labor Laws ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
Many of us have become comfortable with the convenience of logging into our laptops or smartphones using a fingerprint scan in lieu of remembering yet another password. We are familiar with television and movie portrayals of...more
3/16/2018
/ Biometric Information ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Storage Providers ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Encryption ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Private Right of Action ,
Right to Privacy ,
Standard of Care
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new data privacy and security law in Europe that will go into force on May 25, 2018. Every organization that does business with EU customers, regardless of the home base of...more
10/10/2017
/ Consent ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection Officers (DPOs) ,
Data Security ,
DPA ,
Duty to Delete ,
Employee Training ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Incident Response Plans ,
New Legislation ,
Penalties ,
Personal Data ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017. July was no different,...more
8/2/2017
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CA Supreme Court ,
Class Action ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Electronic Records ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Form I-9 ,
Gender Equity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Gig Economy ,
GrubHub ,
Joint Employers ,
Local Ordinance ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Misclassification ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Disability Leave Law ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
San Francisco ,
Settlement ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Uber ,
Updated Forms
The highest state court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a decision yesterday announcing that handicapped employees who have been prescribed medical marijuana may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the...more
7/19/2017
/ Appeals ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Drug Testing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
MA Supreme Judicial Court ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Undue Hardship ,
Zero Tolerance Policies
The term “social engineering” used to conjure up images of social scientists with Ph.D’s brainstorming ways to improve race relations or provide lower income groups with greater access to education and employment...more
4/15/2017
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Cyber Crimes ,
Email ,
Employee Training ,
FCC ,
Fraud Alerts ,
Payroll Records ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Ransomware ,
Social Media ,
Spoofing
Two related healthcare companies were forced to pay settlements with the federal government totaling over $500,000 over allegations relating to a data breach involving patient health information. Much of the negative...more
Last Friday, Snapchat (which recently changed its name to Snap, Inc.) announced the coming release of its newest product: “Spectacles” - brightly colored, fun-looking sunglasses with a built-in camera that records videos in...more
A veteran neonatal nurse practitioner who was fired after one too many acts of misconduct could not prove age discrimination, a federal appeals court recently confirmed. The case presents healthcare employers with a good...more
On October 1, 2015, Experian, the world’s largest consumer credit monitoring firm, announced that an unauthorized party (i.e., hacker) had gained access to the personal data of approximately 15 million customers and...more
Healthcare institutions have a moral and legal obligation to promote patient safety as an essential component of patient care. Supervisors and managers must be supportive of their staffs while remaining vigilant about the...more
8/12/2015
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Defamation ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Jury Awards ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Nurses ,
Popular ,
Reinstatement ,
Retaliation ,
Unions ,
Wrongful Termination
On June 10, 2015, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office published a revised Safe Harbor provision concerning the Earned Sick Time Law that made significant changes to the Safe Harbor provision previously issued on May...more
The long-term-care industry depends on shift workers to provide patient care 24 hours per day, seven days per week. But even experienced and sophisticated employers can find the application of state and federal labor and...more
Employers learned long ago that it’s wise to establish written policies which set forth the standards of conduct expected of their employees. These employers also know that the policies may not simply sit on a shelf (or on an...more