What's the Tea in L&E? Employee Devices: What is #NSFW?
Podcast - Navigating the TikTok Ban: Implications for Government Contractors
[Podcast] TikTok off the Clock: Navigating the TikTok Ban on Devices for Government Contractors
Does Your Company Personal Device Policy Comply with DOJ Guidance?
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 3 - The Science of Modern Digital Forensics
Sitting with the C-Suite: Best Practices in Mobile Device Data Preservation
Sitting with the C-Suite: How Do Corporations Manage the Convergence of Data during Remote Work?
U.S. Department of Defense Awards Contract to Secure Sensitive Data With Blockchain
Digital Workplace Issues
Video | Tips for Managing the Preservation of Mobile Device Data
Podcast: Keeping Up with Recent Changes and Trends in Private Fund Regulation
Ron Camhi Discusses the Importance of Mobile Advertising
Celina Kirchner Discusses Social Media Advertising Laws
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)... *Liability and Data Breach Sold Separately
New Jersey to consider allowing police to search cell phones to combat distracted driving
Unique Privacy Concerns for Mobile Apps
Unlocking Your Cell Phone Is Now Illegal, but Not for Long
Hot Trends in Federal Enforcement on the Web in 2013 from Ifrah Law Partners
Corporate Law Report: Global HR, Textual Harassment, Working Interviews, and Other Workplace Issues
E-Books Empower Lawyers to Publish on Specialized Subjects They Couldn’t Previously
What’s the Tea in L&E is a video series focused on the latest trends and updates in labor and employment law. In this short video, Woods Rogers L&E attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan discuss what content is...more
Employers with employees in Missouri who drive as a part of their employment may want to take appropriate measures to inform employees of a new law that prohibits the use of cell phones and other handheld devices while...more
The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA have issued a new interim rule, FAR 52.204–27, implementing Section 102 of Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117–328), the...more
Is it time to revisit your organization’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies? The answer to this question is subjective, but doing so can be beneficial as the workforce and productivity behaviors change. Having a BYOD...more
The SEC and CFTC settlements with HSBC and Scotia Capital come after years of federal regulators’ and prosecutors’ steadily increasing scrutiny of off-channel communications. Anchoring these settlements are long-standing...more
Previously, we analyzed the proper scope for discovery requests that asked for employee drug and alcohol test results. In this article, we analyze a far more potent discovery substance—cell phone data....more
Employment attorneys from our firm will discuss a range of Employment Law topics, including recognizing the importance of the agency principle, managing the manager, challenging the paradigm of no due process for at-will...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed employees out of the workplace in a way never experienced before. The effect often has been indiscriminate and impacted employees who traditionally do not have access to work email while...more
Many companies have implemented Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policies. For some, it has been years since they were put in place. Has your policy withstood the test of time? Employees are using their devices differently than...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a supplemental decision on May 20, 2020, finding lawful a policy prohibiting employees from possessing or using their cell phones on the manufacturing floor or at their...more
As an employer or manager, have you ever collected a resigning employee’s employer-owned laptop or cellphone and discovered that the employee left a personal email account automatically logged in? Did you have the urge to...more
Over the past year, the popularity of digital workplace apps (that is, mobile applications used by companies to facilitate interactions with, and between, employees) has grown exponentially. These apps promise to...more
Employees seem permanently attached to their smart phones today, but allowing employees to use their personal devices to make work calls, and send and receive work emails can carry substantial risks. ...more
Following its Boeing Company decision, the National Labor Relations Board continues to issue advisory opinions regarding the legality of common employer policies under the National Labor Relations Act. The policies are...more
If you are like most, you probably have 4-5 different chat applications on your phone to talk to friends and family members. Dad only likes to text via SMS, brother Peter only uses Facebook Messenger, Aunty Bridgette can...more
Super Bowl Sunday might feel familiar this year with New England making its third consecutive appearance. However, this year’s big game is anything but ordinary as it is the first Super Bowl where sports betting is legal in...more
Mark Eting is one of Duncey’s Caps top outside sales agents. Because the company is based in Texas, but Mark lives in Cleveland and sells for the company in the northeast, Mark purchased a personal computer and a laptop to...more
With technology today, there are lots of electronic devices law firm employees can use to communicate and to complete legal work. From desktops, laptops, cell phones and tablets, all of these devices can be used to perform...more
The recent revelation that Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly recorded her conversations with President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff John Kelly in purportedly the most secure workplace in the country once again highlights...more
As technology advances, businesses and employees are embracing “bring your own” opportunities beyond “bring your own device,” or BYOD – which refers to when employers allow or even mandate employees to bring their own...more
Given the ever-increasing reliance on digital technology, employees are more and more tethered to their smartphones – checking email during their commute, at the dinner table, and even from their beds – essentially creating a...more
As technology continues to evolve, organizations are increasingly facing challenges concerning whether, and to what extent, they allow employees to utilize their own devices for work purposes. When employees use their own...more
It is now the norm to see passersby glued to their phones as they make their morning trek into work. And when those employees head home, they are often unable to “leave work at the office” as they continue to respond to...more
Many companies permit their employees to use personal mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to access company-specific information, such as email, under a Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policy. BYOD policies can be...more
In a 3-2 decision in The Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (Dec. 14, 2017), the National Labor Relations Board (Board) backed away from 13 years of employee-friendly precedent concerning rules, policies and handbooks by...more