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NY’s New Employment Law Targets Privacy Concerns

Rivkin Radler LLP on 4/5/2024

In the current age of social media, employers have begun to increasingly rely on digital platforms to screen prospective employees. In an effort to address the growing concerns over privacy and the use of social media in...more

Safe for Work? New Social Media Privacy Law Affecting New York Employers Goes into Effect on March 12

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/8/2024

Beginning on March 12, 2024, a new social media privacy law for employees and job applicants goes into effect in New York. The new law will amend the New York Labor Law (the “NYLL”) to restrict most employers from accessing...more

ICYMI: 10+ Years Later, NY Limits Employers’ Access to Employees’ Social Media and Other “Personal Accounts”

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/19/2023

With the potential “tendency of many to ‘overshare,’ documenting everything from their breakfast to their favorite Marvel™ villain” on social media, as recognized in at least one court opinion, perhaps unsurprisingly, some...more

New York Employers: Important Legislative Updates from Albany

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/13/2023

For New York employers, fall has brought with it more than just cooler temperatures, thanks to a wave of activity from Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk (after a busy legislative summer). Below, we highlight six significant...more

New York Bans Employers From Requiring Disclosure of Personal Social Media Login Credentials

Perkins Coie on 9/29/2023

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law bill A.836 on September 14, 2023, prohibiting employers from requesting or requiring employees or job applicants to disclose the login credentials for their personal social media...more

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