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New Employee Privacy Law in Virginia Goes Into Effect July 2013 20 May 2013 | 09:51 pm
By Thomas Flaherty and Rebecca Roche Virginia has enacted a new law that is intended to enhance employee protections, particularly during union organizing drives in the Commonwealth. Effective July...
Minnesota Enacts "Ban the Box Law" 20 May 2013 | 07:01 pm
Effective January 1, 2014, recent amendments to Minnesota law will restrict the timing of pre-employment inquiries by most private employers into a candidate’s criminal past. Employers who are not ...
Colorado Becomes Tenth State to Pass Social Media Password Protection Legislation 14 May 2013 | 11:39 pm
By Philip L. Gordon , Katherine (Katie) Dix , and Jordan Cornett The number of states enacting social media password protection laws has risen once again, as such legislation continues to gain tra...
Washington Adds to Flood of Social Media Password Protection Legislation 13 May 2013 | 08:54 pm
By Philip L. Gordon and Joanna M. Silverstein Washington State has joined this spring’s flood of password-protection legislation. Since mid-March of this year, legislatures in Arkansas, Colorado,...
Status of New Jersey's Social Media Password Protection Law In Flux 11 May 2013 | 02:29 am
By Amber Spataro On March 21, 2013, the New Jersey legislature overwhelmingly passed one of the most pro-employee social media password protection bills in the nation. The bill not only prohibited e...
Patchwork of Social Media Password Protections Laws Impacts Employers 2 May 2013 | 09:22 pm
Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others have become a part of daily life in the United States and abroad. The unavoidable reach of social media into our personal lives has...
Colorado Enacts Law Restricting the Use of Credit Reports for Employment Purposes 26 Apr 2013 | 06:36 pm
On April 19, 2013, Colorado Governor John W. Hickenlooper signed into law Senate Bill 13-018 (the "Employment Opportunity Act"), which will significantly restrict the ability of Colorado employers to ...
Mexico Issues New Privacy Notice Guidelines 8 Apr 2013 | 05:48 pm
On April 17, 2013, Mexico's new Privacy Notice Guidelines will go into effect. The Guidelines impose extensive requirements for furnishing adequate data privacy notices and obtaining consent before pe...
New Jersey Poised to Enact the Most Aggressive Social Media Password Protection Law to Date, Adding to a Patchwork of Conflicting Laws Across the U.S. 1 Apr 2013 | 10:33 pm
By Philip Gordon New Jersey is expected to shortly join California , Illinois , Maryland , Michigan , and Utah in prohibiting employers from seeking employee or applicant passwords to social media a...
Survey Reports High Percentage of Employee Misuse and Theft of Company Data 19 Mar 2013 | 06:14 pm
A recent study by independent data privacy research firm Ponemon Institute of 3,317 individuals in six industrialized countries found that employees are moving intellectual property, including trade s...
