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Michigan becomes latest state to enact social media privacy law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

Last week, Michigan enacted a social media privacy law that prohibits employers and educational institutions from requesting access to the personal social

Supreme Court decides Human Rights Convention did not give employee right to legal representation at disciplinary hearing

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 4 2011

There is generally no right for an employee to have legal representation at a disciplinary hearing

Public sector outsourcing: withdrawal of two-tier code

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 4 2011

The Government has announced the withdrawal of the two-tier code requiring public sector bodies which outsource services to require minimum contractual obligations from their suppliers in respect of staff who work alongside any staff transferred from the public sector body

Duty of care when making comments about former employees

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2011

Employee references are a notorious area of potential exposure for businesses

Stanford v. Roche: highlighting the importance of best practices for employee assignments

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 21 2011

On February 28, 2011, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Case No. 09-1159, wherein the parties sparred over the scope of a federal contractor university's statutory right to elect to retain title to a "subject invention" under the Bayh-Dole Act, 35 U.S.C. 200-212

University's tuition reduction arrangement limited to faculty and senior administrators found to be non-discriminatory

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2010

In a recent private letter ruling, PLR 201029003 (released July 23), the Internal Revenue Service approved a university's tuition reduction plan which consisted of an arrangement ("Plan A") pursuant to which spouses, children and other dependents of all university employees were eligible for 100 tuition reduction at the university, if admitted, and an arrangement ("Plan B") that was limited to spouses, children and other dependents of tenured faculty, associate professors, assistant professors, members of the university administrative council, other administrative officers and certain upper-level management employees and other employees who would qualify for a tuition benefit if they attended other colleges and universities equal to 50 of tuition charged at any other higher-educational institution

Workplace txt msg decision stands - 9th Circuit denies Quon rehearing

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2009

In June 2008, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled that the City of Ontario had violated police officers' reasonable expectation of privacy by reviewing text messages sent on city-issued devices without notifying the police officers in question

NSF announces revised salary policy effective January 5, 2009

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2008

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on October 1, 2008, in its new Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG), that the agency will no longer limit salary support on NSF grants to effort expended during the summer months

New requirements to combat human trafficking pose significant compliance challenges for government contractors

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2007

Following highly publicized sex trafficking allegations in the late 1990s against contractor personnel supporting U.S. operations in the Balkans, Congress enacted a 2003 amendment to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq