Last month the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a Final Rule withdrawing the Trump Administration’s attempt to revise the DOL’s interpretation of independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)....more
Earlier this Spring, OSHA instituted employer recording requirements to document employees who contract COVID-19. Those requirements have been updated multiple times since their inception...more
Butler Snow recently provided guidance for employers regarding OSHA’s illness recording requirements for employees who contract COVID-19. As discussed in that article, since only “work related” incidents must be recorded...more
COVID-19 has caused a tidal wave of new considerations for companies, causing a wide-ranging ripple effect in the way American businesses operate. Given the projected statistics of the number of Americans who will eventually...more
A federal court of appeals recently found that there was nothing wrong with a company monitoring a departed employee’s Facebook account and using that information to pursue a trade secrets claim against four former...more
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Confidential Information ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Duty of Loyalty ,
Electronic Communications ,
Employee Monitoring ,
Facebook ,
Former Employee ,
Hackers ,
Injunctions ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misappropriation ,
Social Media ,
Trade Secrets ,
Unclean Hands ,
Unfair Competition