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NY’s New Employment Law Targets Privacy Concerns

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In the current age of social media, employers have begun to increasingly rely on digital platforms to screen prospective employees. In an effort to address the growing concerns over privacy and the use of social media in...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your March To-Do List

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

DirectEmployers Association

[Webinar] Aligning Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing to Foster a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce - September 14th, 2:00 pm...

In today’s competitive workforce, fostering a safe and inclusive culture is essential in attracting and retaining top talent, but conveying these values to potential employees in a clear and concise manner can prove difficult...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: August 2021 #3

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

DirectEmployers Association

[Webinar] Infusing Creative “Curb Appeal”: Overcoming Obstacles to Forge a New Path to the Frontdoor - September 10th, 2:00 pm -...

The greatest curb appeal ideas are designed to do one thing: entice prospective buyers to look inside and take a “virtual tour” of the property. What is curb appeal, if not another form of marketing to create that initial...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: August 2020 #3

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Dark Day For Hollywood – Law Prohibiting Online Publication Of Actors’ Ages Is Struck Down

IMDb.com Inc. v. Becerra, 962 F.3d 1111 (9th Cir. 2020) - The Ninth Circuit has affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of IMDb.com, a website that lists, among other things, the actual ages of...more

Orrick - Equal Pay Pulse

New Guidance Available for New York Employers About the Recent Salary History Ban

The New York State Department of Labor has created a website to provide guidance on the state’s recent Salary History Ban. We previously reported on the state’s Salary History Ban in detail here after it was passed by the New...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Federal Court Allows Class Action Website Disability Access Case To Proceed Against An Employer

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While we continue to wait for guidance from the government on website accessibility standards, plaintiffs continue to challenge the accessibility of company websites. For years, individuals have brought lawsuits claiming that...more

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Everything’s (Gig)ger in Texas: New State Law Classifies Gig Workers As Contractors

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The confusion surrounding worker classification is not a new topic for any gig economy employer. Whether gig workers are classified as employees or independent contractors is a constant battle businesses face both in the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Website Accessibility: Make Sure Your Website And Job Application Portal Is Accessible

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If you had asked me a few years ago about ADA accessibility lawsuits, I would have talked about the importance of ensuring your business’s seating, aisles, and restrooms complied with the ADA accessibility guidelines. ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

A New Wave of Website Accessibility Litigation: Employers Beware

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Employers across the country continue to face potential litigation over the accessibility of their websites to individuals with disabilities. The increase in website accessibility litigation under the Americans with...more

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The Gig Workforce Doesn’t Just Deliver Your Food; It Now Cooks and Serves It Too!

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I don’t know about you, but the nerd in me occasionally likes to play the “how far can it go” game with the gig economy. In other words, I oftentimes find myself thinking, “can the gig workforce fit in that industry or that...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Beyond Title III: Website Accessibility Lawsuits Filed Alleging Inaccessible Online Employment Applications

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs who pursued numerous web accessibility actions under Title III of the ADA are now using website accessibility to test the limits of a different area of law – employment law – California’s Fair...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

2018 and its first EEO Audit

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New Procedures: Old Problems – Don’t get caught off guard! On February 26, the Media Bureau issued its first Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) audit of 2018 to randomly selected radio and television stations. There are...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Is Your Online Job Application Accessible To The Visually Impaired? The Newest Website Accessibility Claims

In recent years, businesses have been inundated with a wave of serial litigation wherein private plaintiffs have argued that websites that are insufficiently compatible with screen reading software are in violation of Title...more

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Leveraging the Gig Economy to Enhance Employee Engagement

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As the gig economy continues to grow, some employers may become accustomed to creating external job postings for short-term and freelance projects. However, in doing so employers could be ignoring a more obvious talent pool:...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Dark Day For Hollywood – Law Prohibiting Online Publication Of Actors’ Ages Is Unconstitutional!

A federal court has struck down as unconstitutional a California law (AB 1687) that prohibits commercial online services from publishing actors’ ages without their consent. The law, which the California legislature enacted in...more

Dickinson Wright

Did Data Scraping Just Get A Tiny Bit Safer?

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Is it okay to scrape data from another website? This is a frequently asked question that almost always leads to an ambiguous and equivocal answer. Legal practitioners are quick to point out the risks of civil and criminal...more

Dentons

Try Not to be so Friendly: Current Issues in Interviews and Advertising

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Many of us like to chat. We like to know what you’re reading, how your kid’s baseball season is going, and what kind of pie you like, but while hostesses love you at a cocktail party, chatting can lead to trouble, especially...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Actors’ Ages to Remain Available Online (At Least for Now)

A federal court has granted IMDb’s request for a preliminary injunction to allow the entertainment website to keep actors’ ages in their online profiles – despite the enactment of a statute in California prohibiting same....more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Website Sorts Worker Complaints

The administration is beta-testing a new on-line tool at http://worker.gov. The site lets the user select on a job title (from a slowly expanding list) and then click to a menu of various violations of labor and employment...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

California Employment Law Notes - October 2016

Newly Enacted California Statutes - Minimum Wage Increases - As of January 1, 2017, businesses with 26 or more employees must pay a minimum wage of $10.50 per hour; the rate increases to $15.00 per hour in 2022....more

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High Speed Hiring: The Importance of Anti-Discrimination Practices in Online Employment Advertising

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There are currently more than 1 billion websites accessible to the world by just the click of a mouse or the swipe of a phone screen. The Internet has become a major part of more than 3 billion active users everyday lives,...more

MoFo Reenforcement

CFPB Urges SCOTUS: Hands Off That FCRA Holding

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Time to dust off those federal jurisdiction hornbooks! The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Office of the Solicitor General (collectively, “the government”) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in...more

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