Seyfarth Synopsis: The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) creates new rights to reasonable accommodation for employees and applicants who have physical or mental conditions arising from pregnancy, childbirth or related...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Employees’ use of their personal social media accounts in ways that could impact an employer’s business present challenges to employers....more
1/4/2019
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Facebook ,
First Amendment ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Relations ,
Political Speech ,
Protected Activity ,
Retaliation ,
Social Media ,
Social Media Policy
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Fourth Circuit revived the retaliation case of a former city employee who was terminated one day after expressing an intent to file a formal grievance against her supervisor for race-based harassment,...more
Over the last decade, communication via email and text has become a vital part of how many of us communicate in the workplace. In fact, most employees could not fathom the idea of performing their jobs without the use of...more
5/2/2016
/ ECPA ,
Electronic Monitoring ,
Email ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Misappropriation ,
Popular ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Text Messages ,
Trade Secrets ,
Workplace Communication
In what is quickly becoming the newest trending topic in class action litigation, another class action has been filed alleging the disclosure of employee personally identifiable information due to a cyber attack.
This...more
7/7/2015
/ Background Checks ,
Class Action ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Public Employees ,
Public Employers ,
Public Sector Unions ,
Third-Party Liability ,
Vendors