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Suppose a union asks their bargaining unit’s employer for a list of names of all employees who have been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19: Must the employer provide the requested medical information?
Coronavirus: Preparation & Response
Managing the Modern Workplace
The guiding principle for employers to follow when asking or talking about individual employees’ health concerns is “data minimization.” In other words, employers should collect and share employee health information only to the extent necessary to protect the workforce from COVID-19 exposure and should keep those records confidential.
Coronavirus: Preparation & Response
Managing the Modern Workplace
Data protection law is quickly becoming a legal-compliance headache for many companies. As companies and their customers have continued to store more data in the cloud, that data has become a…
Managing the Modern Workplace
On January 25, 2019, OSHA issued a final rule rescinding the Obama administration’s requirements that employers with more than 250 employees must electronically submit their logs of Work-Related…
Managing the Modern Workplace
In Illinois, the state’s Supreme Court just issued a significant ruling regarding the state’s biometric information privacy act , holding that a plaintiff need not prove actual harm from improperly…
Managing the Modern Workplace
On September 1st, a new data protection law took effect in Colorado. The statute requires Colorado employers to implement procedures to protect and eventually destroy employees’ personally…
Managing the Modern Workplace
A few weeks ago in this blog, my colleague Martin Luff discussed how buyers of businesses are increasingly using “Weinstein reps” in corporate transactional agreements in order to ensure that they…
Managing the Modern Workplace
When talking about background checks in the first two parts of this series, we focused our attention on “consumer” or “investigative” reports an employer might obtain from a third-party company that…
Managing the Modern Workplace
When I first started practicing law, only a few of my clients conducted background checks on prospective hires. Today, my clients who don’t conduct background checks are the exception.
Managing the Modern Workplace
With many media channels and American businesses still wondering about Brexit, we wanted to cut through the noise and answer questions about recent UK and EU developments and what impact they might…
Managing the Modern Workplace
Cloud storage is easy to set up, very shareable, accessible on an iPhone, and thus commonplace in workplaces across the country. The use of this technology, however, poses unique challenges for…
Managing the Modern Workplace
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, employment lawyers like myself were warning our clients about certain policies and workplace rules that, despite being once considered common-sensical, had…
Managing the Modern Workplace