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Confidentiality in the Digital Age: The Singapore approach

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In a digital age where large volumes of data can be transferred and retained with ease, the Singapore High Court’s recent decision in Hayate Partners Pte Ltd v Rajan Sunil Kumar [2025] SGHC 41 sheds light on a growing...more

Miller Nash LLP

The Particularities of Trade Secret Identification

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It is not uncommon for employers to discover that a departing employee has downloaded information before walking out the door. But the mere fact that an employee downloaded information does not necessarily mean the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

You Posted What?! Considerations for Employers’ Social Media Policies in 2025 | Insights & Events

Whether or not the TikTok ban is upheld following the January 10, 2025, oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, employers should be aware of some social media trends stemming from the app that are here to stay. As...more

Fisher Phillips

4 Social Media Tips for Employers as Workplace TikToks Continue to Go Viral

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The latest TikTok trends encouraging people to post from work have garnered millions of views as employees post videos from their jobs in retail, office, healthcare, and a host of other settings. Many netizens view these...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

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

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What to do When Your Employee Is Getting Divorced

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Maybe you noticed that an employee needs more time off lately or has seemed extra stressed or distracted. Perhaps they even told you they are having a tough time in their personal life and are divorcing their spouse. While...more

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Web Exclusive: The Top 14 Workplace Law Stories Of December 2019

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The NLRB Permits Employers to Impose Confidentiality Requirements in Ongoing Workplace Investigations

On Dec. 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that confidentiality mandates during the course of workplace investigations are presumptively lawful. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Employers May Now Forbid Employees Using Co. Email for Protected Concerted Activities, Forbid Employees from Discussing On-Going...

The Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to reshape the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) with new decisions that reverse precedents and undo legal restrictions placed on employers during the Obama...more

Snell & Wilmer

Employment Handbooks and Confidentiality

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Employers frequently ask if they can maintain rules requiring employees to keep the contents of their employment handbooks confidential. In a recent memorandum, the General Counsel (GC) (Division of Advice) of the National...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

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

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

Vedder Price

NLRB Handbook Rules Change Like the Wind Post-Boeing

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On June 6, 2018, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“the NLRB” or “the Board”) published its most recent memo concerning employer handbook policies. The memo’s guidance reflects a stark...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Raging Bull: Getting Beat Up On Glassdoor?

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Even if bad Glassdoor reviews have you feeling like you need to fight back, employers should stay out of the ring, and instead implement social media policies that clearly define prohibited behavior and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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

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

BakerHostetler

When Acting to Prevent Data Breaches and Comply with Privacy Laws, Remember Overarching Employee Rights

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The grocery business may be “fresh and easy,” but drafting a confidentiality and data protection policy that withstands the scrutiny of the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is not. The NLRB, in its recent 2-1...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fifth Circuit Agrees With NLRB That Employer Cannot Prohibit Wage Discussions

The National Labor Relations Board has long held that employers cannot prohibit employees from sharing salary information among themselves. Last month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an expanded NLRB ban on...more

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