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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 …
Posted on Dec 30, 2014 on Labor Management Issues, Legal Updates, NLRB, Privacy Rights, Published Articles, Social Media Policies by Robert G. Brody and Abby M. Warren
Over the last several years, we have been bombarded with cases from the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) featuring employees bashing their employers on social media where the Board determined the speech was protected under …
Posted on Dec 30, 2014 on Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody
No one is surprised to hear another city passed a Ban the Box ordinance. On December 1, 2014, Missouri’s city of Columbia’s joined the movement. We have previously written about several Ban the Box laws …
Posted on Sep 30, 2014 on Discrimination and Harassment, Legal Updates, News, Privacy Rights, Social Media Policies by Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
The social media privacy trend on which we have previously reported continues. Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Rhode Island became the latest states to restrict employers’ ability to check the social media profiles of their employees and …
Posted on Sep 30, 2014 on Discrimination and Harassment, Legal Updates, Privacy Rights by Robert G. Brody
New Jersey is the newest state to join the “Ban the Box” movement, an effort promoting legislation that limits inquiries about criminal history during the employment process. As we recently reported, some states are requiring …