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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

North Korean Scammers are Posing as IT Freelancers: Here’s How You Can Protect Your Business

Fisher Phillips on 5/15/2025

Businesses should be aware of growing security risks from North Korean IT workers targeting freelance contracts from businesses in the U.S. and other countries. Typically, these workers fraudulently claim they are from the US...more

How Companies Can Respond to the Surge in Job Scams

WilmerHale on 3/8/2023

The ubiquity of remote work and online hiring has led to a sharp rise in job scams across industries. In these swindles—sometimes called employment scams or recruitment scams—fraudsters impersonate job recruiters from real...more

Weekly Checklist: Avoiding the New Breed of Workplace Scams in the Remote Work Era

Fisher Phillips on 1/31/2023

Each week, FP Weekly members receive a practical and cutting-edge checklist of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace...more

Job fraud targets both applicants, employers

McAfee & Taft on 12/29/2022

By now, everyone knows they shouldn’t respond to an email from a supposed Nigerian prince who promises you a share of his fortune, if only you’ll help him get millions of dollars out of his country. But just when you think...more

Privacy Tip #231 – Out of Work Because of Coronavirus? Beware of Scammers Pretending to Be Employers

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/20/2020

It is an old trick, and one that scammers are once again using following massive lay-offs after the coronavirus outbreak and mandates to shelter from home....more

Recruiting Scams on the Rise

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/6/2018

With more companies hiring, online recruiting scams have re-emerged to prey on job seekers and employers. The Better Business Bureau tracked more than 3,000 recruiting scams in the first 10 months of 2018 with losses in the...more

Reports of Scam Letters Being Sent to L-1A Executives

Cozen O'Connor on 5/10/2016

Members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) have reported that suspicious letters are being sent to L-1A executives. The scam letters claim to be from USCIS and signed by Lori Scialabba, Deputy Director of...more

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