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Privilege And Iniquity, Whistleblowing Reports, Discrimination As A Repudiatory Breach And A News Round-Up

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Our employment law update for August covers a case about the iniquity exception to legal privilege, a whistleblowing case involving a long-delayed judgment and third party reports, and a case on whether discriminatory actions...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Attorney-Client Privilege & Employee-to-Employee Communications

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Thanks to multiple means of electronic communication that are available these days, employees communicate with each other more quickly and easily—and as a result, more frequently—than ever before. Email and other electronic...more

Butler Snow LLP

Protecting Employers From Liability for Certain Non-Malicious Statements Made About Employee Performance, Discipline or...

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In an opinion issued in May 2020, the Tennessee Court of Appeals provided guidance regarding the application of the common interest privilege and its impact on defamation and invasion of privacy claims within the employment...more

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Top Tips for Concluding Workplace Investigatory Interviews

A truly effective workplace investigator knows how to best wrap-up an employee interview. Don’t leave loose ends or wiggle room that can later undermine the effectiveness of the overall investigation and the employer’s...more

McManis Faulkner

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: The Anonymous Complaint Process

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As the number of allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace continue to grow across professions, socio-economic classes, and cultures, employers frequently ask whether an anonymous complaint reporting process for...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The Privacy Perils of Employees’ Personal Phone Calls

California court: Employers unwise to permit use of company telephones for personal calls — at least if the employer plans to record those calls. Two-party consent means two-party consent: All parties to a call must be...more

Hogan Lovells

Employment News - January 2018 #2

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Weekly newsletter on employment matters. In this weeks issue: - Don't break it – rest periods have to be uninterrupted... - Is that relevant? Disclosure of documents between employee and union...more

BCLP

Investigating Claims of Harassment: A Step-by-Step “How To” – Part 1: The Complaint

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What if you were the Human Resources representative that received a complaint that Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, or any of the other number of accused sexually harassed an employee? What if you were the in-house...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

European Court Restricts Employer Access to Employee’s Private Communications

With its recent ruling in Barbulescu v. Romania (application no. 61496/08), the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a decision of enormous impact for employers in Europe. The decision makes clear...more

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2 Essentials For Dealing With Employees Attempting To Game the System

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Today’s workplace is fraught with legal traps for well-intentioned but unwary managers. But one issue stands out far above the rest as perhaps the single biggest employee challenge in today’s workplace: malingering employees...more

Snell & Wilmer

Common Sense Prevails as D.C. Circuit Applies Upjohn in Vacating District Court Order to Produce Investigation Reports

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Government contractors and other companies subject to internal investigation requirements won some relief from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 26 with a decision that firmly reiterated that...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Limit the Risks Associated with Distributing Privileged Communications Inside the Company

Our team at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck recently alerted you to the risk of corporate executives using business email accounts for personal purposes. Click here to read the first alert. In light of developing case law in...more

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