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The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and Similar Laws – and the Impact on EPLI Policies
By Jill Tumney Apr 14, 2022 English
Biometric privacy is receiving a considerable amount of attention these days. Even the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had a plan to use facial recognition to allow taxpayers to access confidential information on the IRS website – until cross-party privacy...
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It’s Valentine’s Day and Harry Met Sally in the Next Pod...
By Alice Zelikson Feb 14, 2022 English
#MeToo; Sexual Harassment; Quid pro Quo; Retaliation; Hostile Work Environment. We are all familiar with these terms. But what about consensual relationships in the office, or spouses who happened to meet each other at work? A 2021 SHRM survey found that...
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A Riskier Workplace Awaits – Helping Employers Before COVID-19-Related Claims Arise
By Jill Tumney Jun 24, 2021 English
COVID‑19 and the associated lockdowns may ultimately prove to be as impactful to the U.S. employment landscape as the Great Depression, passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, September 11, the Financial Crisis,...
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The EEOC’s 2020 Employee Charges and Emerging Issues
By Alice Zelikson and Jeff Weisel Mar 29, 2021 English
The 2020 numbers from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) were recently released. There were 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination made to the agency in the 2020 fiscal year.1 That’s a decline from 2019’s 72,675 charges, possibly...
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