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Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Legal Hold Solutions for Remote Workforces: Staying Compliant from Anywhere

Legal Holds in a Hybrid World: Why Flexibility Demands Modern Solutions - It’s been five years since remote work took off – and while some companies are pushing for a return to the office, most are leaning into more...more

Littler

Dear Littler: What Are Some Considerations Before Implementing Our Return-to-Office Policy?

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Dear Littler, We are a professional services company with employees in various states. During the pandemic we shifted to fully remote work. As the pandemic subsided, we still leaned into remote work to attract and retain...more

IR Global

Managing Remote Workers – 7 Best Practices

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An Accountant in Missouri has run her business for over 20 years. In 2020, she hired her first ‘remote worker’ but now 4 out of 11 of her team members work remotely. What she thought would be a temporary shift has become...more

TransPerfect Legal

Trade Secret Protection in Life Sciences: Strategies for Success

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Late last month, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) hosted a panel on Trade Secret Protection in Life Sciences: Strategies for Success. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, trade secrets are becoming...more

McGlinchey Stafford

FINRA Adopts Two New Rules Impacting Remote Work by Member Firms and Associated Persons

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In a regulatory notice published on January 23, 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced the adoption of two proposed rules, both of which impact how member firms and associated persons approach...more

Venable LLP

Sick of the Status Quo: NYC Issues Final Rule Amending Its Earned Safe and Sick Time Act

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On September 15, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued a Final Rule (Final Rule) amending the Rules of the City of New York governing the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (the Act). The...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

HR Compliance & Remote Employee Engagement: Where the Two Meet (Part 2)

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Businesses know there are distinct challenges when balancing remote work, employee engagement, and HR compliance. Unfortunately, many cannot focus on all three things, and one, two, or even all three get lost. Not focusing on...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Addressing Workers’ Compensation Issues for the Remote Workforce

The ever-evolving work landscape and rise of remote work have brought about new challenges and opportunities for Pennsylvania employers. A critical aspect of maintaining employee well-being and ensuring legal compliance has...more

Kerr Russell

Are Your Remote Workers Too Remote?

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For a time, this seemed to increase employee productivity, likely arising from many factors, particularly including employees being able to work longer hours due to a lack of commute to work. In fact, studies have shown that...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Best Practices to Protect Your Intellectual Property When an Employee Leaves the Company

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The current employment market is placing incredible stress on businesses, many of which are struggling to find enough employees to simply cover shifts. Pay increases and higher recruiting costs, consequently, continue to...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Time Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … California Workplace Poster Requirements and Their Application to Remote Employees

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Handbooks are developed to outline policies and procedures employees must abide by in the workplace.  But a handbook serves a dual, equally important purpose:  to act as an operable defense against workplace claims brought by...more

StoneTurn

Insider Risk and The Protection of Critical Trade Secrets

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While the global pandemic has highlighted the perils of remote work, decades of collective experience undertaking internal investigations for corporations and their advisors in connection with the misappropriation of...more

J.S. Held

Off-Channel Communications: How Financial Services Organizations Can Address Regulators’ Latest Target

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As a number of recent headlines demonstrate, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators have fined and penalized employers and employees in the financial services industry for non-compliance with...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Are Your Workers Data Protectors or Stewards? For Best Results, Organizations Should Foster Both

In some respects, assuring compliance with HIPAA has always been a challenge because many health care providers, particularly physicians, pride themselves on maintaining patient confidentiality—even when they aren’t. Nurses,...more

Jones Day

JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Enhancing Trade Secret Protection in Remote Work Environments

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The recent shift to remote work has meant an increased vulnerability in trade secret protection. Jones Day Labor & Employment Partner Steve Zadravecz explains how updating policies, procedures, and software can make a...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Addressing the Challenge of Keeping HR Policies Compliant [Webinar Recap]

Mitratech and Clear Law Institute sat down for an expert panel uncovering how today’s companies can stay one step ahead of shifting regulatory and HR policies. Employers and HR & Compliance professionals from across...more

Fisher Phillips

Weekly Checklist: Does Your Company Need a Chief Remote Officer?

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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

Porter Hedges LLP

Best Practices to Prevent Internal Fraud and Embezzlement

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While companies increase focus on external risks by enhancing regulatory compliance, anti-corruption policies, and cybersecurity, they must not lose sight of internal risks, including internal fraud and embezzlement....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Work From Home – SOS! Post-Pandemic Legal Hazards

The pandemic has revolutionized the workplaces and remote workforces will almost certainly survive the end of the pandemic. A Gallup poll last fall indicated that 61 percent of workers expect to work remotely at least part of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth

Hybrid work is likely here to say, and, as Sheila Limmroth, privacy specialist at DCH Health System, and the author of the chapter Hybrid Work Environment in the Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual observes in this...more

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

Masks May Be Off, But We Aren’t Out Of the Woods Yet

The State of California and many counties across the state are rescinding their mask mandates this week. However, this does not mean that employers can return to “normal.” The Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”)...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

3 GRC Priorities for Your Organization in 2022

The past two years have been a trial for organizations as they have been required to respond to the complications, risks, and intricacies of the pandemic and its impact on business strategy, operations, and objectives. ...more

NAVEX

IT and Corporate Compliance: Bridging the Gap in the Era of Remote and Hybrid Work

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In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a prime example of punctuated equilibrium. Shifts that have been slowly building for decades seemingly occurred overnight, giving us the contradictory sense that these changes...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Survey: 3 Areas of Concern for Immigration Legal Teams

After several years of restrictions and suppressed immigration numbers, the Biden Administration has provided a light at the end of the tunnel, slowly but surely. America’s new immigration-friendly environment can only lead...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Do I Do With My Workplace Drug Policy Now That Cannabis Is Legal in Illinois and My Employees Are Remote?

In January 2020, Illinois legalized the use of recreational marijuana through the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (“the Act”). Two months later, many employees began working remotely because of the pandemic. Today,...more

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