Employment Policies, Employee Misconduct, Employees

FCA Sets Out Next Steps on Its Approach to Non-Financial Misconduct

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/3/2025

On 2 July 2025, the FCA published its long-awaited proposed next steps on addressing non-financial misconduct (NFM) in financial services. In a joint Consultation Paper and Policy Statement (CP25/18), the regulator is...more

Guide for Participants in Workplace Investigations

Oppenheimer Investigations Group on 2/10/2025

A quick search on Reddit or Google will reveal that workplace investigations often seem shrouded in mystery. Every person involved—complainant, respondent, and witnesses alike—enter the process with questions: Why has my...more

Managing Employee Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries — Hiring to Firing Podcast

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/10/2024

In this episode of the Hiring to Firing Podcast, hosts Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs are joined by Josh Riggs, owner of Social Cannabis, based in Denver, CO. They delve into the complexities of managing employee conduct in...more

Dear Littler: What are the substance use concerns of workplaces past, present, and future?

Littler on 12/12/2023

Dear Littler, I’m in charge of organizing our holiday party this year. To keep things civil, we’re limiting alcohol and reminding employees that although our state has legalized the recreational use of marijuana, there...more

Massachusetts Federal Judge Rules that Protected Activity Does Not Shield an Employee from the Consequences of Engaging in...

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/28/2023

On November 13, 2023, in USA ex rel, Morgan-Lee, et al. v. The Whittier Health Network, LLC, et al., a Massachusetts federal district judge concluded that although the plaintiff engaged in protected activity when she raised...more

You Can’t Prevent Them All: How to Protect Your Company from Unpreventable Employee Misconduct

Dickinson Wright on 9/12/2023

Unfortunately, workplace injuries can occur anytime, even when employers take every possible precaution to prevent them. As most employers have experienced, implementing and enforcing safety rules and policies avoids...more

Harassment Outside the Workplace: Can it Lead to Employer Liability?

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/22/2023

While employers cannot police all employee conduct outside the workplace, employee interactions outside of work can – and do – impact the work environment. Indeed, under certain circumstances, inappropriate conduct by an...more

Bitter Medicine: Third Circuit Holds Officers Disciplined for Offensive Social Media Posts Stated a First Amendment Claim

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/22/2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 8, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in Fenico v. City of Philadelphia that police officers disciplined for offensive Facebook posts stated a First Amendment claim...more

Employment Policies › Employee Misconduct › Employees

FCA Sets Out Next Steps on Its Approach to Non-Financial Misconduct

Guide for Participants in Workplace Investigations

Managing Employee Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries — Hiring to Firing Podcast

Dear Littler: What are the substance use concerns of workplaces past, present, and future?

Massachusetts Federal Judge Rules that Protected Activity Does Not Shield an Employee from the Consequences of Engaging in...

You Can’t Prevent Them All: How to Protect Your Company from Unpreventable Employee Misconduct

Harassment Outside the Workplace: Can it Lead to Employer Liability?

Bitter Medicine: Third Circuit Holds Officers Disciplined for Offensive Social Media Posts Stated a First Amendment Claim

Taking a Stand against Antisemitism - What Can Employers Do?

Romance in the Office

Employer Insights: Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021

Well, That Escalated Quickly

Employment Policies › Employee Misconduct › Employees

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