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Are You Watching Your Workers? What Employers Need to Know About Employee Surveillance

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As surveillance technology becomes cheaper, more powerful, and more widely used, many companies want to monitor productivity through surveillance to protect confidential information and ensure compliance with company...more

Oppenheimer Investigations Group

Digital Danger: When Social Media Posts Can Trigger Workplace Investigations

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Employers bear the responsibility of preventing and correcting harassment in the workplace. While the line between on and off duty conduct has never been crystal clear, in today’s hyper-connected world of social media, the...more

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Navigating Use of Generative AI at Work: Best Practices and Legal Considerations

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In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool that employees increasingly rely on for a variety of tasks. From drafting emails and producing reports to...more

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Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2022

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As the global economy faces the third year of the pandemic, manufacturers are no longer focused on figuring out when things will return to “normal.” Instead, they are applying lessons learned from the past few years to become...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

As States Reopen, Can Employees Refuse to Return to Work Based on Fear of Exposure to COVID-19?

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As many states progress through different phases of reopening, companies are preparing for their employees to return to work. Employers are also noting, however, that some states are seeing COVID-19 cases surge....more

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Social Media Posts During Turbulent Times: FAQs on Employee Rights and Employer Responsibilities

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Many people have commented on social media regarding the anti-racist movement that has been gaining strength in the wake of police officers killings around the country. Unfortunately, some of these posts are inflammatory,...more

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COVID-19 Entertainment Update: Guidance for Entertainment Companies

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The global coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis continues to have a devastating impact across all segments of the entertainment industry. The cancellation or postponement of film and television productions, concerts, sporting...more

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Coronavirus and the Workplace: Employers Considering Taking Employees’ Temperatures at Work Should Proceed with Caution

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Most employers are making efforts to ensure that sick employees do not come to work.  Because a fever may be a symptom of infection with the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”), some employers are considering taking their employees’...more

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COVID-19: Focus on Employment Law Considerations

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Are these the “end times”? No, but the degree of threat that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses to the world’s population keeps being debated in the print, broadcast, cable, and social media. Although the disease...more

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Employers Should be Prepared to Deal with Coronavirus

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With the worldwide cases of coronavirus tripling in the past week, and the eleventh case confirmed in the United States, U.S. employers are examining what necessary precautions should be taken to control and prevent the...more

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Coronavirus Update for U.S. Employers

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Recent fast-paced developments, increasing employee apprehensions, and uncertainty regarding the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV have left employers and employees with some concerns. We recently discussed the emergence of the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Two New NLRB Decisions Allow Employers to Limit Use of Its Email System and Preserve Confidentiality of Workplace Investigations

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Q: What is the current rule on whether an employee can use our company’s email system to distribute union material? Also, are we permitted to require employees to keep workplace investigations confidential without running...more

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The NLRB Permits Employers to Impose Confidentiality Requirements in Ongoing Workplace Investigations

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On Dec. 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that confidentiality mandates during the course of workplace investigations are presumptively lawful. ...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Can Employers get a Grip on Griping? Not all Gripes are Created Equal…

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Negative employee attitudes, chronic complaining, insubordination and gossiping are bad for the workplace.  They can impact employee morale and productivity, and if spread outside of the organization, reflect very poorly on...more

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Self-Driving Trucks and Labor Law—A Look Ahead

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Welcome to the future: The year is 2020 and an organized—i.e., unionized trucking company—“L2M2” has announced it is acquiring a convoy of autonomously powered—i.e., “self-driving”—transportation vehicles....more

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Treating the Cause, Not the Symptom: How to Avoid 10 Employment-Related Liabilities in the Health Care Industry

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Companies of all shapes and sizes continually grapple with how to foster and maintain a productive, respectful work environment. Part and parcel of this objective is ensuring that the workplace complies with the various...more

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