With the rapidly accelerating trend toward electronic documents and data, preserving the confidentiality and privacy of employment-related records and information has become one of the most urgent and rapidly evolving areas of employment law.
Publications
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02.28.2020Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the Workplace: Practical Considerations and Tips for US EmployersUpdatesEmployers are rightfully concerned about what, if anything, they should be doing to respond to the continued spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), with confirmed cases in dozens of countries, including the United States.
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10.30.2013Ready for the November 1st New Job Assistance Ordinance in Seattle? Here's a Checklist for Criminal Background Check Compliance for the Hiring ProcessUpdatesNovember 1, 2013 marks the start of new restrictions on Seattle employers’ use of criminal background checks for employment purposes.
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08.06.2013Do Your Confidentiality Policies Pass NLRB's Expanding Standards?UpdatesThe National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces federal labor law, continues to challenge employer policies that seek to impose confidentiality constraints on employees. This is unlikely to change now that the Senate has confirmed President Obama’s nominations for all five members, bringing the NLRB to full strength for the first time in years.
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05.04.2011California Appellate Court Strengthens the Right of Disabled Employees to Return to WorkUpdatesEmployers often rely on medical information and disability determinations made in workers' compensation matters to decide whether to return employees back to work, even though such determinations are made without regard to disability discrimination laws. However, it is now clear that employers do so at their own peril. In Cuiellette v. City of Los Angeles, the Second Appellate District Court affirmed a $1,571,500 judgment for disability discrimination and failure to accommodate disability in favor of the employee. In affirming the judgment, the court determined that the proper inquiry is whether an employee's medical restrictions prevented the individual from performing the functions of the position held or the desired position to be held.
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03.08.2011Federal Labor Law Protects Nonunion EmployeesUpdatesThis well-established principle surprises many nonunion employers who mistakenly think that the federal law protecting union activities, the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), does not apply to them. The reality is that the NLRA protects nonunion employees in exactly the same way it protects employees engaged in union activities.
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11.04.2009
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11.03.2009
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10.29.2009
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10.28.2009