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Continued Remote Hiring Concerns in IT Sector: What to Look for in 2025 and How to Mitigate Business Risk

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/10/2025

Remote worker fraud is expected to continue to proliferate in 2025. Fully remote hiring and work, particularly in the technology sector, continues to pose unique business and legal risks for companies. Just in December 2024,...more

Artificial Intelligence — From Risk to Reward: Key Questions to Address When Crafting Generative AI Usage Policies

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/22/2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has seemingly infiltrated every aspect of corporate America, and organizations’ legal, compliance, and human resources departments are understandably struggling to keep pace with its...more

AI in the UK Workplace: Key Employment and Privacy Considerations

Morgan Lewis on 11/22/2022

While there is currently no specific regulatory framework in the United Kingdom governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), it is partially regulated. With a number of employment law and data privacy implications, the...more

Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2022

Fisher Phillips on 1/4/2022

Workplace law has changed dramatically over the past two years of the pandemic. Unfortunately, 2022 (or is it “2020 too”?) is shaping up to be another year full of new rules and regulations within this volatile area of law....more

CPRA Update: How to Prepare for Privacy Compliance as an Employer

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 6/21/2021

Last year’s voter guide to California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), included a stark argument against enacting the privacy ballot initiative because it did not go far enough to protect employee...more

Beat the Bots: Employer Risk in Delegating Hiring Practices to Artificial Intelligence— A Dilemma Worth Solving

Adams & Reese on 6/8/2021

As the hiring market surges in the post COVID-19 world, companies may be tempted to automate hiring systems by adopting artificial intelligence (AI), freeing up human resources professionals to engage with candidates at a...more

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – May 2021 #2

PilieroMazza PLLC on 5/20/2021

Protecting Your Company Against Revenue Clawbacks: Preference Actions (Part 3 of 3) - This is the final part of our three-part series on revenue clawbacks. The scenario: a customer or teaming partner goes bankrupt and then...more

#WorkforceWednesday: Extended Remote Work, Return-to-Work Manager Training, Case to Watch - Employment Law This Week®

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/12/2020

It’s #WorkforceWednesday! This week we’re focusing on the long-term operations plans employers are putting in place due to COVID-19, whether it is utilizing extended remote work models or training their managers on return to...more

Cybersabotage: The Hot Tactic Of Today's Disgruntled Employee

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 8/24/2018

Workplace vandalism is so . . . brick and mortar. An employer recently posted a vacant job online. Some people applied for the jobs, and some of them were African-American women. ...more

Compliance News Flash

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 8/20/2018

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization....more

Data Privacy for Employees: A Two-Edged Sword

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers on 6/13/2018

The recent launch of GDPR in the EU (spawning lawsuits against Google and Facebook for $8.8 Billion), and the endless string of data breaches (from Target and Home Depot to Equifax and Under Armor) has data privacy on...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/12/2018

Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

A Human Resources Manager’s Guide to the GDPR (Part 4)

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 6/11/2018

This article is Part 4 of our series on the GDPR for U.S.-based companies. Part 1 assisted U.S.-based companies in determining whether the GDPR applies to them; Part 2 provided an overview of the GDPR’s key concepts and...more

Five Workplace Challenges for Employers in Changing Times

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/30/2018

As Gordon Gekko famously pronounced in the 1980s classic movie Wall Street, “The most valuable commodity … is information.” Those words have never rung truer than in today’s world and in today’s workplaces. And as the old...more

Top 10 Employment & Labour Issues for Employers

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 7/5/2017

1: Accommodation in the Workplace - OVERVIEW - Employers have a duty to accommodate employees’ needs based on those grounds protected under federal and provincial human rights legislation. All employers are required...more

Federal Insurance Office Report Highlights Consumer Protection Issues Raised by Big Data, Cyber Risks

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 1/3/2017

On November 21, 2016, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) issued its first ever annual Report on the Protection of Consumers and Access to Insurance (Report). The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of...more

Match Made in Heaven: Compliance and Human Resources

The Volkov Law Group on 9/29/2016

The corporate compliance function is only as successful as its partnerships with key internal constituencies. Depending on the company and the personnel involved, compliance has to establish and maintain effective working...more

Cybersecurity Compliance Just Got Tougher

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/21/2016

Companies need specific, well-executed plans to meet growing demands of federal and state agencies. While cybersecurity risks have increased, government regulation has traditionally lagged behind. Recently, some...more

Liability for Data Breach Involving Employee Information: Even the Federal Government and Third Party Vendors Are Not Immune

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/7/2015

In what is quickly becoming the newest trending topic in class action litigation, another class action has been filed alleging the disclosure of employee personally identifiable information due to a cyber attack. This...more

Cybersecurity in the Workplace: Obama's Proposals and More

Baker Donelson on 1/28/2015

In the past five years, employers both big and small have become accustomed to social media and increased technology in the workplace. Everyone and their parents are on Facebook, and one cannot go anywhere without being asked...more

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