Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Employee Privacy Rights and Legal Obligations in the Modern Workplace
1984 in the Workplace — Is Employee Surveillance Trending?
#WorkforceWednesday: Year in Review and a Look Ahead to 2022 - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate on Hold, Independent Contractor Classification - Employment Law This Week®
NGE On Demand: Privacy Considerations for Remote Work Productivity Monitoring with David Wheeler
#WorkforceWednesday: 2020 in Review and What's to Come in 2021
On-Demand Webinar | Legislative Updates for Employers to Plan for a Successful (and Compliant) 2021
Privacy Concerns When Contact Tracing in the Health Care Workplace - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Privacy and Data Protection Issues for Employees in the COVID-19 Environment
I’ll be watching you: The ins and outs of employee monitoring
#WorkforceWednesday: Telemental Health Benefits, Support Employee Mental Health, Balancing Safety and Privacy - Employment Law This Week®
[WEBINAR] 2019 Annual Labor & Employment Update
I-13 – Policies, Policies, Policies, and Microchips Embedded in Employees
As a result of recent return-to-office mandates, numerous workplaces are seeing a rise in “coffee badging”—when workers pop into the office for just a few hours to fulfill return-to-office mandates. To identify how often...more
Earlier this month the UK privacy office put a stop to several related entities’ use of facial recognition technologies and fingerprint monitors for their employees. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office found that the...more
With the increase in remote work, employers’ concerns over the security of proprietary company information and employee productivity have increased their reliance on technologies to manage and monitor employees....more
To capture AI’s promise, manufacturers must take steps to protect privacy and root out bias, particularly when they train their systems on data about employees. ...more
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a statement presenting its position and recommendations on privacy protection as it pertains to the collection of employee geolocation data using designated...more
At the Dentons Davis Brown annual labor and employment law seminar last month, employers discussed a large array of topics, many of which were issues that occurred during COVID or were pre-existing but were exacerbated by...more
California employers face an abundance of new employment laws set to take effect at the start of the new year. Below find descriptions of new requirements for employee leaves of absence, pay transparency and data reporting,...more
I had a really interesting discussion with my students during class this week about employers’ use of electronic means to monitor employees. When I first started teaching Privacy Law at Roger Williams Law School eight or nine...more
Technology has revolutionized the workplace and has bolstered business operations and efficiency. Employers are increasingly using automated management systems and other electronic means to ensure that their workplaces are...more
As we discussed in our previous insight, Ontario Passes New Legislation Which Includes an Electronic Monitoring Policy and a New Act for Digital Workers, the Ontario government amended the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the...more
New York State’s recently enacted law requiring notice of electronic monitoring goes into effect on May 7, 2022. To comply with the law, private employers with a place of business in New York must (1) provide notice to new...more
Any private employer with a place of business in New York that “monitors or otherwise intercepts” any employee’s telephone conversations, emails, or internet access or usage by “any electronic device or system” must give...more
On February 24, 2022, the Ontario government announced (the “Announcement”) its plan to introduce legislation that would require Ontario employers to inform their employees if and how they are being monitored electronically....more
Private employers in New Jersey need to be aware of the latest employee privacy law that will take effect on April 18, 2022. A. B. 3950 prohibits employers from knowingly using a “tracking device” in a vehicle used by an...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
On February 28, 2022, the Government of Ontario introduced Bill 88, the Working for Workers Act, 2022. Bill 88 would enact the Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022, which would establish rights for workers who offer...more
On February 24, 2022, Ontario announced that later this month, in an effort to protect the privacy of employees, it will be the first province to introduce legislation requiring employers to tell their workers if and how they...more
Pursuant to a new state law, beginning in May, employers in New York must provide prior written notice and obtain consent from new employees about the types of electronic monitoring being used....more
On Nov. 8, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill amending New York’s Civil Rights Law by adding a new section that requires employers to give prior written notice of any electronic monitoring to employees upon hire....more
On November 9, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill that will require employers in New York State who engage in any electronic monitoring of employees’ telephone, email and internet access and usage to...more
On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation amending the state civil rights law to add a new provision requiring employers who engage in electronic monitoring to notify workers of such....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Under a new statute, New York employers are required to notify employees if they intend to monitor their company-controlled phones, email, or internet use....more
Monitoring employees isn’t a new or novel idea. Companies have long debated the merits of video surveillance in the workplace, tracking employee vehicles with GPS, or monitoring employee movements via a smartphone...more
These days, technology occupies nearly every part of our lives. There is an app for everything, and we can order virtually anything we want on demand and have it arrive on our doorstep nearly immediately. We want things, we...more
Workplace technology has been ever-changing in the past few decades: from desktop computers, to mobile phones, to laptop computers, to smartphones. Now, smart watches are capable of receiving text messages and phone calls,...more