Most companies know that it is critical to have a harassment policy. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an effective harassment policy can help an employer avoid liability, where the policy is communicated to employees but the employees fail to follow the policy’s complaint procedure. The communication and content of the policy is essential
October 2012
Maryland Password Protection Law Takes Effect
On October 1, 2012, Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law prohibiting employers from requiring – or even requesting – that employees provide pass codes to personal websites and devices took effect. Colloquially, this is the “Facebook Privacy Right.” Employers that fail to hire an applicant or discipline or discharge an employee for refusing to disclose a personal pass…
Latest NLRB Decision on Employer Overbroad Confidentiality Policies
Do you think it could possibly violate any law to require at-will non-union employees to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting disclosure outside the company of information relating to customers, marketing procedures, costs, prices, business plans, computer and software systems, and “personnel information and documents?” If you answered “of course not!” you would be WRONG under…