Today, cross-posted on the LXBN site, I reflected on the biggest legal developments of the first half of the decade. I am reposting it here, but my sincere thanks to Lexblog for the support it has given me over the past 8 1/2 years and for the opportunity to provide some insight on its
We’ve got nearly a sold-out crowd for this Friday’s joint program on Data Privacy and Noteworthy Human Resources Issues produced by my firm, Shipman & Goodwin, and the Connecticut chapter of SHRM. I’ll be moderating the morning session and also putting on one of the programs.
In my hour-long talk, I’ll touch on some
I’m pleased to announce an upcoming program that my firm, Shipman & Goodwin and the Connecticut State Council of SHRM are producing next month and that I’ve been planning for several months.
The program, entitled “Data Privacy & Human Resources” will be a unique endeavor for us. First, we are planning on doing it in
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to the Corporate Compliance Forum for the Connecticut Community Providers Association. My thanks to Gayle Wintjen, General Counsel of Oak Hill, for the invitation to speak.
The topic was a familiar one to this blog — Data Privacy. In the session, we tackled the new Connecticut law
With news of yet another breach of personnel data of nearly 21 million Americans yesterday, I invited my colleague William Roberts, to chime in with an update on a new law in Connecticut that updates data privacy requirements in the state. Bill heads up our Privacy and Data Protection team here and works a
My colleague, Marc Herman, returns today to talk about a subject that doesn’t get a lot of attention but may as the technology makes genetic information more accessible. But just because it’s more accessible, doesn’t make it right. Particularly if you suspect something “smelly” in your workplace.
It’s not often that it comes up, but
Well, no one who has been reading this blog should be surprised by the news tonight out of the General Assembly.
Indeed, I’ve written about proposed bills that limit employer access to employee’s personal online account for years now with a lot back in 2013. (See prior posts here, here, here
Company data breaches are becoming far too common. Today, my colleague Jarad Lucan talks about the steps company’s need to take, both pre and post-breach. If your company has a unionized workforce, you may need to adhere to additional duties.
As we have reported in the past (the very recent past), it seems like there
On Friday, I talked to over 150 attendees of our Labor & Employment seminar about workplace surveillance and monitoring.
Some of the discussion focused on whether employers can do the recording; but what about employees?
This
Today, I’m pleased to highlight a guest post from Steven Scheinberg, the General Counsel of the Anti-Defamation League. I’ve known Steven for several years and was very happy when he offered to share his thoughts on this important topic. Steve actually practiced at a prominent plaintiff’s employment law firm in Connecticut many years ago