State Labor Laws, Employee Privacy Rights, Employer Liability Issues

Workplace Recordings and Eavesdropping: Limiting Criminal and Legal Liabilities

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/9/2025

The ubiquity of smartphones and sensitive security cameras have made audio recording in the workplace more common. Some may be accidental, while other recordings may be intentional attempts document workplace conversations...more

AI and Employment

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/27/2025

When evaluating where artificial intelligence has had the most impact, many think of their personal use of AI or the integration of AI into many consumer applications. The use of AI in the employment context is on the back...more

Is My AI Note Taker Violating the Law? Oregon Employers Should Think Twice When Inviting AI to Listen in on Meetings

Tonkon Torp LLP on 2/5/2025

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has spread to seemingly all facets of work and life. One prominent application that has gained popularity both among students and in the workplace is using an “AI Note Taker” to record...more

Capitol Gains: California's Legislative Highlights for 2025

Littler on 12/31/2024

California’s legislature covered a wide array of labor and employment law topics in the 2024 legislative session. The laws discussed below were signed into law by Governor Newsom and will become effective on January 1, 2025,...more

New Hampshire “Guns at Work” Law Takes Effect January 1: What Employers Need to Know + Your 5-Step Action Plan

Fisher Phillips on 12/16/2024

Many New Hampshire employers will soon be required to allow employees to keep loaded guns in their cars parked at work, and all employers in the state will soon need to comply with new employee privacy protections regarding...more

E-Verify in Illinois: SB0508 Myths Dispelled, Rights Protected

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/7/2024

The passage of the vaguely named “Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act” led to widespread chatter that the law possibly prohibited employers from using E-Verify unless they were explicitly required to do so under federal...more

Illinois Passes State Law Offering Protection to Employees from Unfair Enforcement of Employment Verification Practices

Littler on 8/23/2024

On August 9, 2024, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 0508 (“SB0508”) into law. This new law provides additional employment protections for individuals flagged by an employment eligibility verification system,...more

New York’s New Privacy Protections for Employees’ Social Media Accounts - What Employers Should Do Now to Prepare

Venable LLP on 2/1/2024

“Follow me on Instagram, will you?” That may seem like a harmless question to a colleague, but starting soon, New York will ban most employer inquiries regarding an employee’s personal social media account....more

ICYMI: 10+ Years Later, NY Limits Employers’ Access to Employees’ Social Media and Other “Personal Accounts”

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/19/2023

With the potential “tendency of many to ‘overshare,’ documenting everything from their breakfast to their favorite Marvel™ villain” on social media, as recognized in at least one court opinion, perhaps unsurprisingly, some...more

New York State Bill Proposed to Restrict Electronic Monitoring, Automated Employment Decision Tools

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/10/2023

Under a recently introduced bill, employers across New York State could face new restrictions on the electronic surveillance of workers and the growing use of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence (AI)...more

No Written Policy, No Email Monitoring Allowed in California

CDF Labor Law LLP on 5/15/2023

In March, the Second District Court of Appeal published Militello v. VFarm 1509. In that case, former business partners waged litigation against each other over a dispute centering on their vertically integrated cannabis...more