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Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

AI in the Workplace: Crafting Policies for Employees’ Use of Generative AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in workplaces, providing new opportunities as well as new challenges for employers and employees. While AI has the potential to improve efficiency and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

It Is Time to Check Your Onboarding Documents – Employer’s Confidentially Agreement Renders Its Arbitration Agreement...

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On April 19, 2023, the California Court of Appeal held that an employer’s arbitration agreement was unenforceable because of unconscionable terms found in other documents provided to employees during the onboarding process....more

Epstein Becker & Green

New California Law Further Restricts Confidentiality Provisions in Employment, Settlement, and Separation Agreements

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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law the “Silenced No More Act” (SB 331 or the “Act”), which expands limitations on confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements for filed claims, previously...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Everything Employers Always Wanted To Know About Vaccines . . . And Have Been Asking About For Months.

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Just before the Memorial Day holiday, we had a “breaking news” bulletin about the revised guidance published Friday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about employers’ and employees’ rights when it came to...more

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Coronavirus: Employer Action Items

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Employers are struggling to determine how to respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which, while originating in China, has swiftly turned into a perceived international crisis, upending financial markets,...more

Hogan Lovells

NLRB Permits Confidentiality Requirements in Ongoing Workplace Investigations

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On December 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) held that confidentiality mandates during pending workplace investigations are lawful.  This ruling overruled the NLRB’s recent precedent that such mandates...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

NLRB Weighs in on Confidentiality, Personal Use of Company Email, and Other Workplace Policies

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Employers should be careful about designating Employee Handbooks confidential as, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s advice division, that would be unlawful. That advice was contained in one of five memoranda...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: When the Feds Come Knocking on Your Door

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In this episode, Michael McKay and Carla DewBerry discuss the practical implications of responding to an investigative inquiry by governmental officials. In particular, entities that find themselves as the subject of a...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Divided NLRB Rules Employer Policy Protecting Customer Information Is Lawful

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Employers can prohibit the use by employees of the names, social security numbers and credit card numbers of customers in furtherance of organizational activities. If this seems like it should have been a foregone conclusion,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Employers May Wish to Update Electronic Access Policies to Assure Access to Employee's Emails with Counsel - New York Appellate...

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In most states, it is fairly clear that attorney-client privilege does not apply to communications between an employee and the employee's personal lawyer if the communications are made using the employer's email system and if...more

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Data privacy in the Americas - At a glance

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As multinational employers are aware, data privacy laws can vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Ensuring compliance with the different requirements can be challenging, and the penalties for noncompliance can be...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Balancing Protection of Information With Employee Rights in Confidentiality Policies"

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The developing law on employer confidentiality policies underscores the tension between an employer's ever-increasing need to protect confidential information and an employee's established right to discuss terms and...more

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