Managing the Compliance-HR Relationship
Strategic HR Insights with Kelly Mitchell
A Guide to Running Background Checks: What's the Tea in L&E?
Constangy Clips Ep. 9 - The Penalty Playbook: 3 Pointers for Employee Discipline
Fostering Teamwork: Lessons From the Dynamic Duo of Monsters, Inc. — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Building a Solid HR Foundation in Healthcare Practices
Employment Law Now VIII-158 - DEI Developments and Executive Coaching
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Good News for the ACA in 2025
Now Is the Time to Conduct I-9 Audits: What's the Tea in L&E?
(Podcast) California Employment News: AB 2499 – Expanded Rights & Protections for Victims of Violence in the Workplace
California Employment News: AB 2499 – Expanded Rights & Protections for Victims of Violence in the Workplace
Office Holiday Parties: Legal Insights and Best Practices from Office Christmas Party and Love Actually — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Navigating Multigenerational Dynamics: Inspired by The Intern — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Employment Law Now VIII-152 - Part 2 of 2 on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Attorney Interview)
DEI for the Savvy Employer: Navigating Challenges and Maximizing Opportunities
Compliance and Psychological Safety
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 35: Navigating Union Campaigns with Armando Llorente of Llorente HR Consulting
DE Talk | How SMBs Can Use AI Hiring Tech in Inclusive Ways
Reel Shorts | Labor & Employment: Navigating AI Compliance Risks in Recruiting
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 34: Generations in the Workplace with Caroline Warner of the South Carolina Power Team, Part 2
In today’s fast-paced work environment, keeping communication clear and engaging with your team is more important than ever. With the increasing complexities brought on by diverse workforces, remote teams, and various...more
Let's face it, navigating the landscape of HR policies and compliance regulations can feel like wandering through a labyrinth blindfolded. For HR and Compliance professionals, ensuring employees have access to the knowledge...more
Picture this: your HR team is overwhelmed with stacks of resumes, emails from eager candidates, and never-ending games of phone tag. Sound familiar? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. ...more
Workplace complaints are serious. Even if a claim doesn’t lead to disciplinary action, the fact that an employee has made an accusation usually indicates workplace problems that need to be addressed for productivity, morale,...more
Risk Management Question - How can employees mitigate the risk of falling for phishing scams purportedly sent by their company's HR department? The Issue - Scammers often know just the right thing to say to pique an...more
Employers that monitor their employees’ electronic activities should note that New York State will soon require employers to (i) provide written or electronic notice to employees upon hiring of such monitoring in the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 2 (February 2020) - A ruling from Georgia’s highest state court could set a precedent that determines recourse for victims of cyberattacks. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in late December...more
Much has happened since the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Many EU countries have enacted national legislation to implement and expand the requirements of the...more
For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more
Payroll Threats and Protecting Personal Information - In case you have not been checking the FBI warnings (I realize those are unusual words for a benefits person), you and your employees should know of one of such...more
It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more
Nearly a year ago, in February 2017, the IRS issued a warning regarding phishing attacks targeting a broad range of companies. The scam involves a hacker impersonating an employee of a company, usually the CEO, and sending an...more
As employers prepare to send employees their W-2s for last year by the end of the month, cybercriminals are preparing phishing emails under the guise of company executives requesting personal information on employees. The IRS...more
A large portion of the data breaches that occur each year involve human resource related information. Bryan Cave has put together a multi-part series to help human resource managers understand, prepare for, and react to, a...more
Last February, the IRS issued a warning to all employers regarding the resurgence of a W-2 based cyber scam. The scam, which targets businesses during tax season, was also “spreading to other sectors, including school...more
A dangerous email scam currently is circulating nationwide and targeting employers, including tax exempt entities, universities and schools, government and private-sector businesses. The scammer poses as an internal executive...more
HR and payroll professionals nationwide have been, and will continue to be, targeted with e-mails apparently sent by a senior executive but actually sent by scammers who ask for a prompt reply with the 2016 W-2s for all of...more
It starts with an e-mail from upper management asking for employee data or payroll records. Wanting to demonstrate that he’s diligent and responsive, a well-meaning HR or payroll person promptly sends off the requested...more
Emails, lots and lots of emails, filling our inboxes. Even with the best security and filters, it seems that hackers are simply building better mousetraps. The bigger problem, however, is the trusting nature of individuals...more
Tax season can be a trying time of the year for any employer, but even more so now. As HR Departments across the country are working hard to distribute W-2 forms to employees, cybercriminals are using increasingly...more
Over the Lunar New Year period, we observed a spate of email wire frauds (or ‘business email scams’) which involve funds being wired internationally to bank accounts in Hong Kong. The amounts transferred vary from a few...more
The Internal Revenue Service and other agencies recently issued an urgent reminder Alert warning of a sophisticated scam to obtain confidential information and in some cases, fraudulent cash wire transfer payments. Scammers...more
Tax-related identity theft is nothing new, but tax season 2016 took tax schemes to a new level. Last year, our cyber experts advised a large cluster of clients (public and private companies) over a period of only two...more
The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax industry issued an urgent alert today to all employers that the Form W-2 email phishing scam has evolved beyond the corporate world and is spreading to other...more
What if employers could read employees’ minds? Cybersecurity firm Stroz Friedberg has developed technology that some might say can do just that. The software, Scout, reads employee emails to determine if an employee is...more