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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Can Employees Refuse to Use Personal Smartphones for Work Tasks?

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Recently, we had interesting questions from a client that was implementing two-factor authentication for employees to access the company’s information systems. The process requires employees to install the authentication app...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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

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

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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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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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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

TikTok Ban on Contractor Devices

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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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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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

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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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Is Payday The New Groundhog Day? What Bill Murray Can Teach Employers About New Pay Apps

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Most are familiar with Bill Murray’s classic comedy, “Groundhog Day,” in which egotistical weatherman Phil Connors repeatedly re-lives the date of February 2, 1993. At first, Connors relishes replicating the same events each...more

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