A U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey has just found that private Facebook postings by an employee about her employer are subject to the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C….
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Read More ›Picture this: you get to work on a Monday morning, grab a cup of coffee and turn on your computer only to find that 1,300 of your employees received an…
Read More ›By signing Senate Bill (SB) 292 into law, California Governor Jerry Brown memorialized the seemingly non-controversial proposition that sexual harassment plaintiffs suing under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)…
Read More ›As an employment law attorney, I regularly advise employers on personnel issues, including the conduct of internal investigations into employee complaints. Colleagues at my firm have a similar practice. We…
Read More ›Would you believe that 1.1 billion people use Facebook and one-third of Americans use social media for at least an hour a work. Considering how prevalent social media is, you…
Read More ›Paula Deen, a celebrity chef known for her extreme Southern cooking and excesses, has been embroiled in scandal for the last several months, bringing together an odd mix of legal…
Read More ›In the salacious realm of sex discrimination law, the Iowa Supreme Court recently rendered an opinion that just might contend for the best blog fodder of 2013. Whether the decision in Nelson…
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