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International Data Privacy Day is Monday

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • January 25 2013

Conduct employee training on privacy as it relates to employment, helping employees learn how to protect the privacy of clients’ and customers’

Fiscal cliff bill includes commuter tax benefits

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • January 4 2013

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "Act"), signed on January 3, increases the pre-tax contribution that commuters may make towards van pools as

Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart v Dukes is a big victory for employers

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2011

The Supreme Court's historic ruling in Wal-Mart v Dukes will make it more difficult for plaintiffs to pursue actions against employers on behalf of nationwide and other broad classes of employees

The future of class action suits after Wal-Mart v. Dukes

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 23 2011

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court decertified a plaintiff class in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, which asserted claims on behalf of 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees alleging that Wal-Mart discriminated against women on matters of pay and promotion

Invention assignment following Stanford v. Roche: implications for technology transfer and government contracts

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • June 27 2011

Last week the United States Supreme Court clarified the respective invention ownership rights between federal contractors and their employee-inventors under the Bayh-Dole Act (35 U.S.C. 201(e), (c), 202(a)) (the “Act”) in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Sup. Ct. June 6, 2011

SEC adopts final whistleblower bounty rules under Dodd-Frank

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 16 2011

On May 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules implementing the whistleblower provisions of new Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which was added to the Exchange Act by Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”

"Whistleblowing" to media not protected by Sarbanes-Oxley

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

In a decision that likely surprised no one but the plaintiffs, on May 3, 2011, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that Boeing was within its right to fire two employees who complained to the media about practices they viewed as potential violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX"

Firing of teacher's union activist for viewing porn in violation of school district's computer usage policy upheld in face of First Amendment and other challenges

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

67 seconds of viewing porn... That’s all it took to get a high school biology teacher and former teacher’s union president, Robert Zellner, fired- 67 seconds of viewing porn

Connecticut to require many employers to offer paid sick leave

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2011

The Connecticut General Assembly has passed a sick leave law that will make Connecticut the first state to mandate paid sick leave for certain hourly service workers

DOL announces: we have an app for that! Employees can track hours worked and calculate overtime

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2011

On May 9, 2011, the US Department of Labor launched a smartphone "app" to help employees track hours worked and break times, and to calculate regular wages and overtime

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