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Employers to be aware and prepare - Privacy Act amendments

Squire Sanders
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Australia
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February 25 2013

The much anticipated privacy legislation passed through Federal Parliament late last year. Employers now need to be extra careful in the way they

Bring your own device considerations for your policy

Squire Sanders
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Germany
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January 25 2013

Status quo Around two thirds of companies worldwide currently allow their employees to use their personal devices for company purposes. Recent

Dealing with fishing expeditions

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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October 16 2012

Recently we’ve seen a number of disgruntled employees exercise their rights under the Data Protection Act to make Data Subject Access Requests of their employers

Summary dismissals to be handled with care

Squire Sanders
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Australia
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July 27 2012

In a recent X-rated tale a summary termination was found to constitute unfair dismissal, even where an employee's misuse of electronic communication provided a sufficient reason for termination

Facebook concerned over user privacy--should employers be too?

Squire Sanders
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USA
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March 30 2012

On March 23, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan warned its users in a blog post “to keep their password to themselves, and Facebook will do its best to protect that right.”

Monitoring at work: Spanish employer did not breach employee's right to privacy

Squire Sanders
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Spain
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February 16 2012

The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that the dismissal of an employee for using her work computer for personal purposes was lawful

Additional recordkeeping under GINA?

Squire Sanders
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USA
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February 6 2012

On Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a final rule which mandates that employers retain workplace records so that the agency is able to ensure compliance with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act’s (GINA) prohibition of employment discrimination based on a worker’s genetic information

Liverpool dodge own-goal in reference response

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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October 5 2011

Ever agonised about just how far you should go when responding to a reference request?

Dismissal for carelessness - the law of unintended consequences

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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August 24 2011

No doubt an enormous amount of reciprocal finger-pointing going on at recruitment group Hays at the moment following its inadvertently sending 800 people at the Royal Bank of Scotland the pay details of some 3,000 contractors and temps on the Bank’s books

Sixth Circuit holds employer's lawsuit against union for email and phone spam attack not preempted by the National Labor Relations Act

Squire Sanders
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USA
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August 5 2011

In Pulte Homes, Inc. v. Laborers’ International Union of North America, Nos. 09-2245; 10-1673 (6th Cir. August 2, 2011), the Sixth Circuit reversed in part the district court’s dismissal of Pulte’s Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims and, in the process, further elucidated the “independent-federal-exception” to Garmon preemption over conduct “arguably subject” to section 7 or 8 of the National Labor Relations Act

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Employers to be aware and prepare - Privacy Act amendments

Bring your own device considerations for your policy

Dealing with fishing expeditions

Summary dismissals to be handled with care

Facebook concerned over user privacy--should employers be too?

Monitoring at work: Spanish employer did not breach employee's right to privacy

Additional recordkeeping under GINA?

Liverpool dodge own-goal in reference response

Dismissal for carelessness - the law of unintended consequences

Sixth Circuit holds employer's lawsuit against union for email and phone spam attack not preempted by the National Labor Relations Act

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