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Employee Privacy Rights Notice Requirements

Cole Schotz

New York Employers Take Note: Another Slew of Laws Have Been Passed

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In recent weeks, New York enacted various employment laws that provide additional protections for New York employees. After reviewing the below, which summarizes the new laws in descending order of effective date, employers...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Employers’ Use of Vehicular GPS to Track Employees

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a statement presenting its position and recommendations on privacy protection as it pertains to the collection of employee geolocation data using designated...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Employee Data Increasingly in the Crosshairs of Data Privacy Enforcement

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The California Attorney General’s investigative sweep is a potential harbinger of increased focus on employers’ data privacy compliance with respect to employee data. On July 14, 2023, the California Attorney General...more

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California Employers Beware: Your 5-Step Plan as Attorney General Announces CCPA Investigative Sweep

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California employers, beware: the state’s top prosecutor just announced his office is conducting an investigative sweep of whether and how large California employers have complied with data privacy and consumer protection...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

[Webinar] Top Tips for California Employers to Prepare for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Effective January 1, 2023 -...

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Following the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), for the past two years, employers have been partially exempt from many of the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) mandates pertaining to applicants,...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Employee Data Under the CCPA: Expiration of Employer Exemptions Requires Compliance as of January 1, 2023

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) was passed in 2018, employers have been watching carefully to see how the law will apply to data collected and maintained about their employees. Up until now, employment data...more

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Viral TikTok Video Serves as a Reminder for Employers to Review Your Workplace Monitoring Policies

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As a recent viral Tik-Tok video made clear, younger professionals are beginning to recognize that employers could be monitoring their workplace communications – which may mean that you will want to revisit your policies and...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Workplace Surveillance and Recording

More and more, employers have considered using surveillance within the workplace, whether it is to prevent theft, measure productivity, or simply monitor what employees are doing when they are on the clock. While these are...more

WilmerHale

New Rules and Risks in Employee Monitoring

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Employee communications and use of company devices are often key issues in trade secret and related litigation. United States law, for the most part, has been very supportive of an employer’s ability to engage in aggressive...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Will Employers Have More Obligations Beyond the CCPA if these California Privacy Bills Pass?

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California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

New York Employers Now Required to Provide Notice of Electronic Monitoring

Senate Bill S2628 went into effect on May 7, 2022. The bill, which was signed into law by Governor Hochul on November 8, 2021, requires all private sector employers—regardless of size, number of employees, or entity type—to...more

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New York’s New Notice of Electronic Monitoring Goes into Effect on May 7, 2022

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New York State’s recently enacted law requiring notice of electronic monitoring goes into effect on May 7, 2022. To comply with the law, private employers with a place of business in New York must (1) provide notice to new...more

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May 7th Compliance Deadline for New York Employers to Notify Employees of Electronic Monitoring

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Pursuant to an amendment to the New York Civil Rights Law that will take effect on May 7, 2022, private-sector employers that monitor their employees’ use of telephones, email, and the internet must notify employees of any...more

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Reminder: New York employers must comply with electronic monitoring notice law by May 7

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Any private employer with a place of business in New York that “monitors or otherwise intercepts” any employee’s telephone conversations, emails, or internet access or usage by “any electronic device or system” must give...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Reminder: New York Employers Must Soon Implement Electronic Monitoring Policy

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New York will soon require employers to provide written notice to employees if they monitor or intercept employee telephone conversations or transmissions, emails, or internet access or usage. As discussed in our prior...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Ontario Update: Proposed Legislation to Require Employers to Have Electronic Monitoring Policies

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On February 24, 2022, the Ontario government announced (the “Announcement”) its plan to introduce legislation that would require Ontario employers to inform their employees if and how they are being monitored electronically....more

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Tracking Employees with GPS? New Jersey Law Requires Employers to Give Written Notice to Employees Before Using a Tracking Device...

Private employers in New Jersey need to be aware of the latest employee privacy law that will take effect on April 18, 2022. A. B. 3950 prohibits employers from knowingly using a “tracking device” in a vehicle used by an...more

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New Jersey Joins the Trend of Increasing Privacy Protections for an Employee’s Location

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In the last few years, a flurry of state privacy legislation has bolstered protections for everything from biometric data to rights of deletion. Location data is no exception. The latest statute, New Jersey’s Assembly Bill...more

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Ontario, Canada to Introduce Legislation Requiring Employers to Disclose Electronic Monitoring of Workers

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On February 24, 2022, Ontario announced that later this month, in an effort to protect the privacy of employees, it will be the first province to introduce legislation requiring employers to tell their workers if and how they...more

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User Beware! New York State Joins Connecticut in Requiring Employers to Notify Employees of Electronic Monitoring

On November 8, 2021, New York amended its Civil Rights Law to require employers to notify employees if their use of e-mail, telephone systems, computer systems and the like are subject to monitoring or interception by the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Notice, Consent Required in New York for Electronic Monitoring

Pursuant to a new state law, beginning in May, employers in New York must provide prior written notice and obtain consent from new employees about the types of electronic monitoring being used....more

BCLP

New York Enacts Employee Privacy Protections with Electronic Monitoring Law

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Beginning May 7, 2022, employers that monitor their employees’ electronic communications are required to provide written notice to current employees and to new employees, upon hiring. The new legislation, signed into law on...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Imposes New Requirements for Employee Monitoring

New York recently enacted a law governing employee monitoring. The law applies to New York employers who monitor employees through electronic devices. This includes monitoring of telephone, emails, and internet access or...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

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New York to Require Employers to Inform Workers of Electronic Monitoring

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On November 9, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill that will require employers in New York State who engage in any electronic monitoring of employees’ telephone, email and internet access and usage to...more

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