Electronic Communications, Regulatory Reform

The Digital Networks Act: A New Era for EU Telecoms Regulation

DLA Piper on 3/14/2025

With the upcoming Digital Networks Act, the European Union will transform the regulatory landscape for electronic communications networks (ECN) and electronic communications services (ECS). This ambitious legislation aims to...more

Companies Can No Longer Afford to Slack Off in Preserving Chats and Messages

Troutman Pepper Locke on 2/9/2024

Doubling down on guidance originally issued in September 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced updates to standard preservation letters and...more

Legal Reform: Ability to hold Shareholders’/Partners’ Meetings and Board of Directors’ Meetings remotely through electronic means

White & Case LLP on 10/27/2023

On October 20, 2023, a decree was published to reform and add several provisions of the General Law on Commercial Entities (Ley General de Sociedades Mercantiles) (the "Law") to allow the use of electronic means for the...more

Two New NLRB Decisions Allow Employers to Limit Use of Its Email System and Preserve Confidentiality of Workplace Investigations

Troutman Pepper Locke on 1/7/2020

Q: What is the current rule on whether an employee can use our company’s email system to distribute union material? Also, are we permitted to require employees to keep workplace investigations confidential without running...more

NLRB restores employers’ right to control email, IT systems

Bricker Graydon LLP on 12/20/2019

On December 16, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a major decision restoring employers’ property rights in the use of email and other IT resources. In Caesar’s Entertainment, the NLRB held that employees...more

NLRB (Mostly) Restores Employers’ Right to Restrict Use of Their Email Systems

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 12/19/2019

In 2014, the NLRB held in Purple Communications that employers must allow their employees to use company email systems to engage in union activities and other protected conduct under the National Labor Relations Act. Last...more