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Most countries provide some degree of workplace protection for employees and job applicants. Depending on the jurisdiction, these protections generally include safety precautions and policies, anti-discrimination policies, collective bargaining and unionizing rights, meal and rest requirements, minimum wage rules, and medical and family leave rights to name a few. In the United States, the federal framework for employee rights stem from statutes such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In addition, employee rights statutes are implemented and enforced by regulatory authorities such as the EEOC, NLRB, OSHA, and the Department of Labor. Further, many state and local governments provide additional and localized protections for employees that are enforced by local regulatory entities. less -
Ius Laboris

Email on company account can be ‘private’

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In France, actions taken by an employee in his or her personal life cannot generally be used by the employer to justify a disciplinary dismissal. Dismissal for personal speech or activity can only be justified if it...more

Fisher Phillips

4 Steps to Prepare for Kenya’s Proposed “Right to Disconnect” Law

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Kenya has taken a significant step in addressing the balance between work and personal life by introducing a “right to disconnect” law. The Employment (Amendment) Bill 2022, which is pending before the Kenyan Senate, would...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Can I Read My Employee’s Emails? New York Law Will Require Advance Notice Effective May 2022

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From time to time, situations arise that prompt an employer to want to review an employee’s emails and other electronic communications. In matters involving internal investigations, concerns about a breach of an employee’s...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Employee Monitoring: New York Establishes New Requirements for Employers

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Earlier this month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into a law a bill that will require New York private sector employers to provide written notice to employees before engaging in electronic monitoring of their...more

Brooks Pierce

National Labor Relations Board Changes Course On Employee Email

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Employers who revised their electronic communication policies under the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) Purple Communications standard may want to head back to the drawing board (again) in the new year. In Caesars...more

Fisher Phillips

Web Exclusive: The Top 14 Workplace Law Stories Of December 2019

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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 for the past few years—and this past month...more

Troutman Pepper

Two New NLRB Decisions Allow Employers to Limit Use of Its Email System and Preserve Confidentiality of Workplace Investigations

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Q: What is the current rule on whether an employee can use our company’s email system to distribute union material? Also, are we permitted to require employees to keep workplace investigations confidential without running...more

Epstein Becker & Green

#BigIdeas2020: NLRB’s Actions Impact Employers in 2020 - Employment Law This Week® - Trending News

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A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Steve Swirsky, Member of the Firm: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ended the year with a flurry of activity, including the relaxing of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Employers May Now Forbid Employees Using Co. Email for Protected Concerted Activities, Forbid Employees from Discussing On-Going...

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The Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to reshape the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) with new decisions that reverse precedents and undo legal restrictions placed on employers during the Obama...more

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NLRB Confirms Prohibiting Use Of Company Equipment, Including Work Emails, Is Lawful

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The National Labor Relations Board decided Tuesday, December 17th, that employees have no statutory right to use an employer’s equipment, including work emails and IT resources. Therefore, employers may legally restrict the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

NLRB Clears the Purple Haze Around Employee Use of Employer E-mail

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The NLRB reversed the controversial holding in Purple Communications, which allowed employees to use their employer's e-mail system during non-working hours to engage in Section 7 protected discussions regarding wages, hours...more

Polsinelli

NLRB Extends Deadline for Amici to Address Purple Communications Ruling

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On August 31, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) extended the deadline for public comment regarding whether the Board should revisit its 2014 ruling in Purple Communications, 361 NLRB 126 (2014). ...more

Littler

Sorting out the Truth About the Right to Disconnect in France

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Introduced on August 8, 2016 and effective since January 1, 2017, the “El Khomri law” (named after the French Labor Minister) or “loi travail” granted employees in France the "right to disconnect" from digital devices....more

Carlton Fields

Non-Union Employers Beware: Your Employee Handbook May Violate Employees’ Rights

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Can a company prohibit its employees from participating in public writing or speaking engagements without prior company authorization? What about speaking to the press or media? Such policies are common and routinely included...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

The e-Workplace: Balancing Employer and Employee Rights

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Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. YouTube. Blogs. Email. Texts. Social media and the “E-Workplace” have become a fact of life for all employers. Companies have learned that these social media sites can be powerful marketing tools,...more

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Connecticut Joins States That Protect Personal Online Accounts of Employees

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Connecticut has joined a list of twenty-one states with a statute designed to preserve the privacy of personal online accounts of employees and limit the use of information related to such accounts in employment...more

McDermott Will & Emery

A Simplified Norm to Represent an Expanding Power: the Right to Listen in on Employees’ Phone Calls and the Standardization of...

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Since 2001, the French Court of Cassation has made a continuous effort to refine and, in some circumstances, narrow the scope of the right to privacy in the workplace with a view to reaching a fair and balanced approach. The...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

NLRB: Employees Have Right to use Employer’s Email for Union Organizing if Other Non-Business Use is Permitted

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Today, the National Labor Relations Board held that employees have a right to use their employer’s communications systems – including email – for protected activity during non-working time, unless the employer prohibits all ...more

Snell & Wilmer

Employees Must Be Permitted to Use Their Employer Email Systems for Nonwork Purposes — Right to Wear Union Insignia Is Expanded

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Reversing well established precedent, on December 11, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) held that employees that have been given access to their employers’ email systems, must be permitted to use...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

California Employment Law Notes

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Google Required To Produce Emails In Response To Former Employer's Subpoena - Negro v. Superior Court, 2014 WL 5341926 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014) - Navalimpianti USA, Inc. subpoenaed Google, Inc. to produce copies of...more

Franczek P.C.

Court Determines that Employer's FMLA Notice Sent by Email is Not Reliable (Sending Employer World into Tizzy)

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We have a mini-FMLA crisis on our hands this week, and the courts are to blame. This issue involves the FMLA notices that employers send to employees, but more importantly, the delivery route in which they send them....more

Benesch

Employers Who Prohibit Use of Company Technology for Non-Business Purposes Have Dodged a Bullet—For Now.

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The NLRB marked the end of summer by issuing its highly anticipated decision in Purple Communications, which many believed would address whether employers can continue to ban use of company equipment and technology,...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

NLRB General Counsel Says Employees Have Right to Use Employer E-Mail Systems for Union Organizing

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On Monday, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel filed a brief asking the Board to rule that employees have a protected right to use their employer’s internal e-mail system for union organizing. The Board’s...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

NLRB To Determine If Employees Have A Statutory Right To Use Employers' Email And Other Communications Systems For Union...

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has invited the public to file amicus ("friend of the court") briefs by June 16, 2014 addressing whether employees have the statutory right to use employers’ email and other...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

NLRB Reconsiders Employee Use of E-mail Systems

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Under current law, employees have no statutory right to use their employer-provided email for Section 7 purposes. However, on April 30, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) released a Notice and...more

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