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Posted on Sep 29, 2021 on Featured, Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
September 15, 2021 Artificial Intelligence software manufacturer, Brainshark Inc. (“Brainshark”), was hired by its client to use its artificial intelligence software to scan its client’s sales employees’ facial biometric data to score the employee’s sales …
Posted on Aug 20, 2021 on Legal Updates, Legislative Updates, Privacy Rights, Sex by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
August 15, 2021 – Effective October 1, 2021, Connecticut’s “An Act Concerning Breastfeeding in the Workplace” will go into effect. This new legislation expands employers’ obligations to accommodate lactating and breastfeeding employees. It is part …
Posted on Jul 29, 2021 on Labor Management Issues, Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
July 9, 2021 Walmart has been accused of violating a worker’s privacy by utilizing voice recognition software to track the employee’s work without first obtaining his consent. The former warehouse worker, Andrew Barton, is seeking …
Posted on Apr 6, 2021 on Disability, Discrimination and Harassment, Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody and Mark J. Taglia
April 6, 2021 Earlier this year the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) delivered to the Federal Register, for publication and public comment, its Notices of Proposed Rulemakings (the “Rule”) on wellness programs under …
Posted on Feb 26, 2020 on Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody
A Wingstop franchisee in Illinois is being sued for violating his employees’ biometric privacy rights. In the suit, the employees allege the owner obtained their fingerprints without their written permission. They also allege the owner …
Posted on Nov 20, 2019 on Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
Hilton Hotel in Chicago is facing a class action lawsuit over fingerprints! A housekeeper who worked only nineteen (19) days filed a class action lawsuit against the hotel chain asserting they violated the Illinois Biometric …
Posted on Oct 10, 2019 on Privacy Rights, Special Alerts, Tips of the Month by Robert G. Brody and Lindsay M. Rinehart
We hope it comes as no surprise to employers in Connecticut that the state has an electronic monitoring law which requires public and private employers to give advance notice to employees if their activities will …
Posted on Mar 27, 2019 on Disability, Discrimination and Harassment, Privacy Rights, Tips of the Month by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
Service animals are becoming more prevalent and we are finding few employers have contemplated how to work with this new reality. The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and many State laws, including Connecticut’s and New …
Posted on Aug 30, 2017 on Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody and Lindsay M. Rinehart
On August 1, 2017, a Wisconsin company became the first company in the United States to offer its employees microchip implants to log into company computers, use copy machines and even purchase food in the …
Posted on Nov 9, 2016 on Discrimination and Harassment, Legal Updates, News, Privacy Rights, Sexual Orientation by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
At the end of August, in State of Texas v. United States of America, a Texas federal court Judge, the Honorable Reed O’Connor, issued a 38 page order blocking the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance …