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Are You Watching Your Workers? What Employers Need to Know About Employee Surveillance

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As surveillance technology becomes cheaper, more powerful, and more widely used, many companies want to monitor productivity through surveillance to protect confidential information and ensure compliance with company...more

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NLRB Announces its Focus on Online Tracking Tools Used to Manage Remote Worker Performance

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A significant concern for managers of remote workers is the ability to engage, manage and monitor performance and productivity – and some healthcare employers have turned to technologies like tracking employee keystrokes,...more

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Surprise Surprise, the NLRB Continues Expanding Employee Protections

Imagine this: a nurse leaves the operating room during spinal surgery to participate in a union action, the employer terminates the nurse, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) holds that the employer violated federal...more

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“I Always Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me”: How the NLRB General Counsel Proposes to Curtail Employer Surveillance

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On October 31, 2022, National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") General Counsel, Jennifer A. Abruzzo, published a memorandum outlining a new framework she intends to use to advocate for restricting overreaching employer...more

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Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: NLRB General Counsel Tips the Scale Toward Broadening the Scope of Employee Protections

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant shift toward remote work, together with recent technological advances, have drastically expanded the reach of employers' capacity to manage and monitor employees both in and outside of...more

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NLRB General Counsel Seeks Limits On Employer Electronic Surveillance and Automated Management Practices

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On October 31, 2022, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum advocating for adoption of a new framework for policing employer use of electronic monitoring and automated...more

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NLRB General Counsel Issues Memorandum on Electronic Monitoring of Employees

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On October 31, 2022, Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued a Memorandum regarding new challenges that employers will face for the electronic monitoring and algorithmic...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top Five Labor Law Developments for October 2022

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1. The National Labor Relations Board modified its test for determining if COVID-19-related conditions warrant mail ballot union elections, potentially signaling a return to mostly in-person votes. Starbucks Corp., 371 NLRB...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Caught on Video No More? NLRB General Counsel Releases Memo Urging Board to Curtail Employer Use of a Variety of Surveillance...

On October 31, 2022, Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s General Counsel (GC), released a memorandum regarding employer use of electronic surveillance and automated management, and its potential interference with employees’ ability...more

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NLRB General Counsel Announces Plans to Crack Down on Workplace Monitoring Practices

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The top lawyer from the National Labor Relations Board recently announced that agency investigators should target workplace surveillance and “algorithmic management” technologies that have a “tendency” to interfere with...more

DarrowEverett LLP

I Always Feel Like… My Boss is Watching Me!

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Following similar movement by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), which recently released guidance on the use of artificial intelligence by employers, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #348 – Considerations for Electronic Monitoring of Employees

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

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NLRB General Counsel Calls for Board to Crack Down on Electronic Surveillance and Automated Management Practices

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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

Fox Rothschild LLP

NLRB to Presume that Electronic Monitoring is Unlawful?

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The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel recently stated her intention to target employers’ use of electronic monitoring technology and other surveillance equipment as a violation of the National Labor Relations...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

More on Workplace Surveillance

Our blog post on Nanny Cams in the workplace turned out to be one of our most popular posts (makes us wonder what people are putting in the search bar?).  So, we thought we would follow up with some more information for...more

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