U.S.-based multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are confronting a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract. This implementation...more
9/25/2023
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After months of uncertainty, the rulemaking process for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the first-ever comprehensive U.S. data privacy law applicable to human resources data (“HR Data”), concluded on March 29,...more
This is the fifth in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers.
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which goes into effect January 1, 2023, will impose specific...more
In the last few years, a flurry of state privacy legislation has bolstered protections for everything from biometric data to rights of deletion. Location data is no exception. The latest statute, New Jersey’s Assembly Bill...more
This is the second in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. -
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2023, grants six new...more
9/7/2021
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Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial. In Loyhayem, the court found that...more
At long last, the European Commission, on June 4, 2021, adopted new Standard Contractual Clauses (“new SCCs”) to permit lawful transfers of personal data from the European Union (EU) to third countries such as the United...more
By April 30, 2020, the stay-at-home orders imposed in at least 15 U.S. states will have expired. Although the governors of some of these states are likely to extend the prohibition on employees of “non-essential” businesses...more
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the United States, employers that currently have employees reporting into their facility each day are being forced to consider stringent measures to protect the health and safety of...more
The announcement by Equifax, Inc. that it had been victimized in a hacking incident involving the personal information of 143 million Americans generated headlines this past week. The sheer size of the hack means that most...more
9/18/2017
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With the intersection between cutting-edge social media and the Depression-era National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act) still relatively new, employers are looking for answers to some fundamental questions when it comes...more