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Italy: Garante Issues Fine for Use of Employee’s Private Chats in Disciplinary Actions

DLA Piper on 7/21/2025

The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) has fined a company EUR 420,000 for violating privacy laws in the workplace. The decision focuses on the employer’s use of content from Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger— shared...more

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2025

Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

Employees using free or unauthorized AI tools at work?

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 5/15/2025

The rise of artificial intelligence has brought both opportunities and challenges to the workplace. However, a growing trend of employees using free or unauthorized AI tools poses significant risks, from security breaches to...more

When is Recording at Work Grounds for Dismissal? A Case of Nuance and Context

Bennett Jones LLP on 1/28/2025

In an age where technology makes recording conversations easy and common, a recent wrongful dismissal case (Wan v H&R Block Canada Inc., 2024 ABKB 734) raises important questions about privacy, workplace ethics and the...more

AI and Employee Data Protection in the European Union: 8 Key Takeaways for Multinational Businesses

Fisher Phillips on 12/31/2024

Advancements in artificial intelligence and digitalization are changing the world of work at a rapid pace. In particular, when AI systems are used as workforce management tools, employers can automate a large number of tasks...more

Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2022

Fisher Phillips on 1/4/2022

Workplace law has changed dramatically over the past two years of the pandemic. Unfortunately, 2022 (or is it “2020 too”?) is shaping up to be another year full of new rules and regulations within this volatile area of law....more

[Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 10th, Richmond, VA

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/2/2021

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

COVID-19 Vaccination and related employment law issues

BCLP on 6/9/2021

With the gradual lessening of locally acquired cases of COVID-19, on 28 April 2021, the Government announced measures to relax restrictions in respect of the operation of restaurants and other premises. While catering...more

One Year Later: How the Evolving Work-from-Home Climate Prompts Reminders for Technology Best Practices

Fisher Phillips on 5/3/2021

Perhaps no COVID-19 phenomenon will have a more lasting impact than the virtual office. Many employers recently marked the first anniversary of the decision to ask their employees to work from home in an effort to combat the...more

#WorkforceWednesday: Extended Remote Work, Return-to-Work Manager Training, Case to Watch - Employment Law This Week®

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/12/2020

It’s #WorkforceWednesday! This week we’re focusing on the long-term operations plans employers are putting in place due to COVID-19, whether it is utilizing extended remote work models or training their managers on return to...more

9 Important Questions To Ask Before Joining A Nonprofit Board

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 8/12/2019

You are ready to join a nonprofit board so you can help support the good work that it does. Do you know the risks associated with serving in this important role? ...more

Top 10 Things All Employers Need To Know About Autonomous Vehicles

Fisher Phillips on 10/1/2018

We’re living at a time when a unique convergence of multiple trends is ensuring that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon change life as we know it. On the technology side, vehicles are trending towards being electrified and...more

Biometric Privacy Targeted In Increased Class Action Litigation in Illinois

BCLP on 11/20/2017

Even as technology advances and consumers become more accustomed to providing their fingerprints in routine, everyday transactions (such as unlocking their cellular phones), private entities, and employers in particular, are...more

Organizing Data Privacy Within A Company

BCLP on 6/26/2017

Although organizations have dealt with privacy issues for years, only in the past decade have they begun to view the complexities of privacy as requiring formal organizational structure, dedicated employees, and/or dedicated...more

Pokémon Go Back to Work!

Littler on 7/29/2016

Pokémon Go has taken the United States and the rest of the world by storm, with an estimated 75 million downloads in the first three weeks since its release. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game where...more

Data privacy in the Americas - At a glance

FordHarrison on 10/16/2015

As multinational employers are aware, data privacy laws can vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Ensuring compliance with the different requirements can be challenging, and the penalties for noncompliance can be...more

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