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Top 5 Surprising Takeaways as Fisher Phillips Launches Digital Wiretapping Litigation Tracker

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Some businesses might be surprised to learn that digital wiretapping litigation claims are one of today’s fastest-growing compliance risks, with over 1,560 lawsuits filed in 28 states since a groundbreaking 2022 decision...more

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Additional Protections for Seattle App-Based Workers Take Effect On January 1, 2025

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Seattle continues to expand protections for app-based workers (sometimes referred to as “gig workers”) working within the City of Seattle with its new App-Based Worker Deactivation Rights Ordinance....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The New Investigatory Environment for Workplace Messaging Apps

Republished with Permission The incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are poised to open a variety of investigations after they take power. Those investigations will most likely follow the...more

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Implications of Mahram v. The Kroger Co.: A Closer Look at Arbitration Agreements

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In a recent legal dispute, Mahram v. The Kroger Co., a California Court of Appeal delivered a decision that may have implications for employment arbitration agreements. Although the case at hand involved a consumer...more

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When Even Emojis are Evidence: The Importance of Clear Written Communication

People in the workplace communicate more often and via more methods than ever before. Quite often, many of these methods of communication—emails, text messages, and instant messages on platforms like Slack or social media—are...more

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Wellness Apps and Privacy

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Employers looking to enhance their suite of employee benefit programs, and focused on lessons learned during the pandemic on wellbeing, are interested in providing greater access to wellness tools. And, the vendors who...more

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British Columbia Statute on Minimum Employment Standards for App-based Gig Workers Receives Royal Assent, But Relevant Provisions...

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On November 30, 2023, Bill 48 – 2023: Labour Statutes Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 48), received Royal Assent from the Government of British Columbia (BC).  Bill 48 is a statute pertaining to minimum employment standards for...more

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The Gig is Up: British Columbia Announces Incoming Employment Standards for App-Based Gig Workers

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The B.C. government has announced its intention to table legislation that will impose minimum employment standards for app-based gig workers, including ride-hailing drivers and food delivery workers, who are typically engaged...more

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CPRA Enforcement Activity Underway Despite Court Ruling to Delay

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The California Attorney General's (the "Cal AG") office appears to be moving forward with enforcement activities, despite a recent court ruling delaying enforcement of CPRA regulations. In the past month, since the amendments...more

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TikTok Ban on Contractor Devices

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA have issued a new interim rule, FAR 52.204–27, implementing Section 102 of Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117–328), the...more

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California Court Of Appeal Holds That App-Based Driver And Delivery Businesses Can Properly Classify Workers As Independent...

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On March 13, 2023, in Castellanos v. State of California, the California Court of Appeal handed down a pink unicorn decision in favor of app-based driver and delivery businesses that permits them to properly classify workers...more

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Off-Channel Communications: How Financial Services Organizations Can Address Regulators’ Latest Target

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As a number of recent headlines demonstrate, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators have fined and penalized employers and employees in the financial services industry for non-compliance with...more

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

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Food Delivery Apps Can Be Both a Blessing and a Curse for Restaurants: 5 Tips to Avoid a Tip Credit Landmine

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Restaurants’ reliance on food delivery apps soared during the pandemic because they provide a convenient way for customers to order from local restaurants and an easy solution for processing restaurant payments and sourcing...more

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Littler Global Guide - Sweden - Q4 2021

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On December 17, 2021, the new Whistleblowing Act (2021:890) entered into force, implementing the EU Whistleblowing Directive (2019/1937). The new act provides protection of persons who, in a work-related context, have...more

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The Netherlands: Update on employers' use of CoronaCheck app

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As previously discussed, there are several considerations Dutch employers need to keep in mind if they want to scan the QR code on their employees' CoronaCheck app. This discussion is now in full swing and CEOs of a number of...more

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The Netherlands: Considerations on employers’ use of the CoronaCheck app

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Employers that want to scan the QR code on their employees' CoronaCheck app would do well to draw up a policy that outlines the measures for providing a safe workplace....more

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New California DFEH App Regarding Baby Bonding and Pregnancy-Related Disability Leave

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On March 24, 2021, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) issued a press release introducing the new app it developed in partnership with technology company Neota Logic and students from the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.17.2021 | Top Story: Uber to Reclassify Its 70k British Drivers as “Workers”

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Uber will officially classify its British drivers, all 70,000 of them, as “workers” following a “major legal defeat” for the ride-hailing company in the British Supreme Court last month. The move entitles the drivers to “a...more

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Driving in Reverse? Uber/Lyft Drivers Seek to Undo California's Proposition 22

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Note to Readers: In this two part-series, we will discuss major developments in California’s gig economy landscape this week. Part 1 discusses a lawsuit filed by Uber and Lyft drivers challenging the constitutionality of Prop...more

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TikTok, Nosy Apps And Your IT Security: What Employers Should Know

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Memes, funny videos and entertaining dance routines are often what go viral on social media these days … but earlier this year, it was a warning about social media that became the talk — or should we say Tok — of the...more

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California Labor Commissioner Files Suit to Enforce AB5 Against App-Based Car Washing Service

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The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has taken aim at Mobile Wash, Inc., a business that offers a mobile app for on-demand car washing and detailing services, filing a lawsuit against the company and its president to...more

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Back to Work: The Use of Contact Tracing Technology to Improve Worker Safety

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The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned a number of novel technologies aimed at suppressing the spread of the coronavirus. In China, for example, the most popular messaging and payment apps contain technology that requires a user...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: Mobile Tracking Technologies, Added PPP Flexibility, Return-to-Work Plans - Employment Law This Week®

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Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. Here’s the week’s top workforce management and employment law news: Mobile Tracking Technologies (video featuring attorneys Adam Forman, Karen Mandelbaum, and George Whipple) Mobile...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Washington state's new facial recognition law, the U.K. Supreme Court's ruling that an employer is not liable for a data breach caused by a disgruntled...more

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