Employer Liability Issues, Employees, Data Breach

Court Confirms Kentucky Consumer Protection Act Doesn’t Cover Employees, But Legal Risks Remain: 5 Steps for Employers to Avoid...

Fisher Phillips on 5/16/2025

A federal district court recently found that employees aren’t protected by Kentucky’s consumer protection law because they don’t qualify as consumers, handing a solid win to employers. The April 21 decision in Viviali v. One...more

SAF Logistics fined for mishandling employee data

Ius Laboris on 10/26/2023

French authorities have fined an air freight company for a string of employee data violations, and for its failure to fully cooperate with their investigation....more

Strategies for Preparing to Deal with Crisis in the Workplace

FordHarrison on 4/3/2023

Increasingly, employers find themselves facing a variety of crises in the workplace and are called upon to respond in real time. Crises in the workplace can take many forms, but commonly include the following...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/16/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

IT Security Trends in the Era of COVID: Our Top Five Tips for Making Your Network Safer in 2021

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/15/2021

As the COVID era drags on, it is clear that work life “post-COVID” may be very different from life “pre-COVID.” This is especially true as it relates to IT security. More and more employees have shifted to a telecommuting...more

Employers Take Note: Tax Season Phishing Scams on the Rise

Fisher Phillips on 2/21/2018

It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more

Employee Health Information: Separate and Secure

Zelle LLP on 10/23/2015

There are several reasons an employer might have employee health information, ranging from the results of a pre-employment physical to the contents of a request for FMLA leave to what’s written in a health provider’s note...more

That is SO last week - July 2015 #3

Zelle LLP on 7/21/2015

There’s just no rest for employment lawyers this summer. We had another exciting week. The biggest news was the EEOC’s ruling that Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The agency found that...more

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