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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

When Bad Things Happen to Good Employers: 10 Crisis Management Tips

Crisis planning is not everyone’s idea of a good time, but an ounce of prevention is worth it when you are faced with a crisis. Here are 10 things to think about as you prepare for a possible crisis: Where is your...more

Fisher Phillips

A 10-Step Crisis Communications Playbook for Employers

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When a crisis erupts at your organization, you won’t have time to develop a response from scratch. Instead, you’ll need to have a robust crisis communications plan already in place so you can effectively communicate with your...more

K&L Gates LLP

The SEC Fines Stand-Alone Adviser for Off-Channel Communications

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Overview - On 3 April 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced the first settlement with a stand-alone registered investment adviser for, among other things, failures to maintain and preserve...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

HR Compliance Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide for Employers

For HR leaders, HR compliance can sometimes seem as complex as a Rubik’s cube. In this comprehensive guide, we will demystify HR compliance for you and provide valuable insights to help your business stay on the right side of...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

10 Common HRC Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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For Human Resources, compliance is king. Ensuring that your organization follows all applicable laws and regulations is a legal obligation and crucial for maintaining a healthy and productive work environment. However,...more

Jones Day

Considerations for Addressing DOJ’s Corporate Compliance Guidance on Mobile Devices and Messaging Platforms

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In light of the DOJ’s most recent guidance on the use of personal devices and third-party messaging applications by corporate personnel, this White Paper addresses issues and challenges that companies are facing in this area...more

StoneTurn

eDiscovery and Forensic Investigations: Six Tips for Managing Company Messaging Protocols

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The world of workforce communication looks vastly different from 2020, including an increased blur between personal and business communications due to remote work environments and access to instant messaging and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Messaging Compliance in a Shifting Regulatory Landscape: Is Regulation Stifling Business Innovation?

Are you ready to learn how to implement electronic communications capture and supervision in your firm for better compliance and prevention of regulatory violations? Is messaging compliance giving your compliance function...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Generative AI Is Here – Are Your Workplace Policies Ready?

As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology, like ChatGPT, finds new and greater uses in the workplace, employers must consider the myriad of legal and other issues that come with it. For good reason, employers...more

Epiq

Remaining Compliant Amidst Challenges When Using Chat Applications in the Workplace

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Communication is different in the modern workplace. Gone are the days of phone calls and email being the primary channels of interaction. Many organizations are frequently utilizing chat applications like Microsoft Teams for...more

StoneTurn

Beyond Whistleblowing: Five Steps to Establish an Effective Speak-Up Program

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"Whistleblowing," a fundamental component of any compliance program, refers to specific allegations of misconduct raised typically through an anonymous hotline or similar mechanism. "Speak-Up" is broader and refers to a...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Preventing Sexual Harassment: Lessons From Hollywood, The Governor’s Mansion, And The Boardroom

The fall from grace in the #MeToo era continues; this time, it’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. This past week the New York State Attorney General released a report concluding that Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple women and...more

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[Webinar] COVID-19 Back-to-Work Guidance: What to Know about Returning to an In-Person Environment - May 6th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am...

Please join us as we provide guidance to employers ensuring their employees, and customers, feel safe in returning to an in-person environment. The presentation will address various topics such as: - Workplace Safety -...more

NAVEX

4 Steps for Risk-Based Back-to-Work Planning

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Navigating COVID-19 (and beyond) requires organizational resiliency, flexibility, and innovation when returning to a new standard in business operations. HR and risk professionals need to understand how to overcome the legal,...more

NAVEX

3 Ways to Boost Compliance During COVID-19

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Companies have been moving at breakneck speed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a compliance professional, you’ve been there: from work-from-home and planning to go back to work, to layoffs and furloughs, to sales...more

Blattel Communications

Communicating Effectively During COVID-19

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has derailed any resemblance of normalcy in our professional lives, it is important to understand how we as communications professionals can push our organizations’ messages and our clients’...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Communicating Effectively Under the ADA: What Your Organization Needs to Know - Labor & Employment Newsletter

With the increase in communication and notices being sent to customers in multiple industries, one area companies in the 21st century need to be well aware of relates to communication disabilities under the Americans with...more

Vedder Price

Gearing up for NYC’s “Cooperative Dialogue” Requirement Effective October 15: What Employers Need to Know

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While this month brought significant changes to all New York State employers in addressing workplace harassment, NYC employers will need to change gears and ensure that their policies and practices for addressing workplace...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

NYC #MeToo Update: Sexual Harassment Poster and Employee Fact Sheet Just Released

Earlier this year, we wrote about the sweeping legislative changes enacted by New York State and New York City aimed at preventing workplace sexual harassment in the wake of #MeToo. Now, the NYC Commission on Human Rights...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Two New Laws Impose Increased Burden on NYC Firms - Hedge Up Alert: A Heads-Up on Employment Issues Confronting the Investment...

• New York City’s new Temporary Schedule Change Law requires firms to accommodate employee requests for temporary schedule changes for qualifying reasons up to two times per year. • An amendment to the New York City Human...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

No Summer Break for New York State’s and New York City’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Protections

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With the summer (and many vacations) now in full swing, it would be easy for employers to miss the anti-sexual harassment protections that were added to the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (NY CPLR) and New York’s...more

Fisher Phillips

New York State Employers Face Significant New Sexual Harassment Laws

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Employers operating in New York will soon face a raft of new sexual harassment laws. The state budget bill for the 2019 fiscal year approved by the New York State Legislature on March 31 and signed into law by Governor Andrew...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Use of Text Messaging Should Change the Nature of Evidence Gathering in Internal Investigations

It doesn’t take a millennial to know that these days not all pertinent business-related communications are to be found on corporate e-mail servers. As we have increasingly seen in recent internal investigations, the most...more

The Volkov Law Group

Hiding Behind the Privilege – A Cloak or a Dagger?

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CCOs face many challenges in their jobs. One area that is difficult but usually can be solved with common sense is where to draw the line on attorney-client privilege issues. As a practicing attorney, I can attest to the...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The rules are the rules are the rules

While I went to law school for a law degree and stayed an extra year to get a tax LLM degree, my feelings about the law is as simple as: “the rules are the rules are the rules.” Maybe it’s my stubbornness, but I believe that...more

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