I-22- The Benefits of Benefits: A Roundtable Discussion on Trending Benefits Issues for 2018
California employers should be paying close attention to a pending bill that would significantly restrict how employers use workplace surveillance tools. If enacted, AB 1331 would prohibit employers from using workplace...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
With the 2022 California legislative year closed, it is once again time to examine the new legislation that will affect entities operating within the state. Summaries of key legislation are below, with relevant action items...more
The California Legislature enacted numerous new bills – some (like those regarding COVID-19) are in effect now. Others require employer compliance as of January 1, 2023. This is the third part in a series of posts regarding...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law a bill that requires employers to provide employees written notice before using tracking devices on any vehicle used by an employee....more
Earlier this year, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Assembly Bill No. 3950, which requires employers in the State to provide written notice to an employee before using a tracking device on a vehicle used by 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
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
Employers in New Jersey take notice: As of April 18, 2022, it is prohibited by law to use tracking devices on employee vehicles without providing written notice. On January 18, 2022, Gov. Murphy signed into law Assembly...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The final day of the 2020-2021 New Jersey legislative session was January 11, 2022, which meant that by the end of business on January 18, 2022, Governor Murphy was required to sign, veto, comment on, or...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
COVID-19 ushered in a new paradigm of remote working. Although some companies had already embraced a remote workforce or some semblance of one, this work model is new for many employers. Most employers are still grappling...more