Recently by Katharine H. Parker
Technology
Social Media Roundup
Rhode Island, Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma are the latest states to provide prospective and/or current employees with increased social media protections, following Tennessee, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, California, Michigan, Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas, Colorado,...
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Employers Beware: Background Checks Require More And More Forms
Employers who solicit consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) to conduct background checks on their prospective and current employees are subject to a growing patchwork of federal, state and local fair credit reporting acts (FCRAs). Among other things, these laws require that employers distribute an...
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Supreme Court's DOMA Decision Affects Employers' Obligations Under The FMLA
On June 26, 2013, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal law that defined "marriage" as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and "spouse" as a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. United States v. Windsor...
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Policy Issues Alert: New N.Y. Law Prohibits Hiring Of Inmates For Positions With Access To Social Security Numbers
On August 14, 2012, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law to prohibit any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation from hiring inmates of correctional facilities for any position that involves accessing, collecting or processing the Social Security number of other individuals. The new law...
Read MoreSupreme Court Rules Against The City Of New Haven In Highly Publicized Reverse Discrimination Case: What Does Ricci vs. DeStefano Mean For Employers?
On June 29, in a highly anticipated 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Ricci v. DeStefano that the City of New Haven engaged in unlawful intentional race discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") when it discarded a firefighter promotional...
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