Effective January 1, 2023, employers who are hiring in the state of Washington will need to comply with the strictest job posting requirements in the United States. Washington’s newly revised Equal Pay And Opportunity Act now requires employers with 15 or more employees to disclose a pay scale and general description of benefits in each job posting or face claims of at least $5000 per violation. Washington’s agency overseeing the Act recently finalized its Policy to answer many outstanding questions regarding compliance with the new law.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Employment & Labor Law eGroup,* addresses how companies should respond to he NLRB's New Banner Health Decision on confidentiality in investigations.
The increasing use of digital media outlets such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube is on a crash course with the corporate world. Employees are engaged with digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in their everyday lives, including in the workplace. How can you protect your organization from the impact of this new normal? What policies do others have in place? What ethical problems arise with the use of these outlets in the corporate space? This experienced panel representing the technology, financial services, and media industries will discuss the issues that impact compliance and IP in light of these developments. This interactive session will answer these important questions as well as provide the audience with real world examples aimed at helping in-house counsel address this important issue.
This resource takes a look at a recent amendment to the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China, which took effect on 1 January 2021. The amendment the Civil Code, Article 1010 has introduced new policy and principles on what constitutes sexual harassment, expanding the scope of recipients to include men, in addition to introducing specific obligations and potential liability for employers in this area.
The technology sector is no stranger to patent litigation, especially in the smartphone and tablet industry. The current Apple-Samsung dispute involves over 50 lawsuits in nine countries. This article considers the Apple-Samsung dispute and provides an alternative universe scenario: What would this litigation battle look like in international arbitration?
As the availability and popularity of social media spreads, corporate America is faced with the inevitability of its employers participating while in the workplace. This trend poses new risks in data security, information management and compliance challenges, while legal and IT teams are left with the task of adapting to the subsequent business and legal threats.
Public sector workers who are compulsorily transferred to an independent provider of public services will in future be able to retain access to their current public sector pension arrangements. This article looks at the new policy and its implications for employers tendering for contracts to provide public services.
Members of ACC's Litigation Committee share their experiences of how developing vital relationships early during their in-house career resulted in fewer challenges for them and their company. Discusses choice of outside counsel, budgeting for litigation, managing client expectations, building a litigation team and understanding your company's insurance coverage.
Sales are everything in growing IT companies. This realization, plus seven crucial tips, can help new in-house counsel at IT companies become productive, valuable contributors more quickly.
Summarizes the nature of the new security requirements arising from new regulations and provides an outline for preventing "the Monday morning horror" for your client, with special attention to the unique needs of the law department residing within the corporation.
This is a sample policy regarding substance abuse.
The author discusses new innovations in software-generated text and how current and future attorneys can remain relevant to their clients.
Government contractors have been increasingly met with scrutiny, particularly since ex- government officials often go to work in that sector. Several legislative and regulatory initiatives have been implemented in order to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of government contractors. Given the current climate, it is more important than ever for those seeking a bid to identify, address and mitigate these “conflict of interest” issues.
Learn about Personal Data Protections Law in coming into force in February 2023.
Sparked by recent technological advancements, lawmakers in the European Union have had to enact new legislation to protect against the unauthorized use of personal data
Public companies and their in-house counsel face new challenges as activist shareholders are demanding a greater voice in the boardroom. At the same time, engaged shareholders and their counsel tread the mine field of regulation as they seek to influence the governance agenda in the companies they own and to hold boards and management accountable for underperformance. Recently, some of the most high profile proxy contests have involved U.S. hedge funds targeting Canadian public companies. In this panel, hedge fund in-house counsel will face off against public company in-house counsel, fresh from their recent battles, to share their experiences and insights gained. Outside counsel with experience on both sides of the fight will discuss how in-house counsel can successfully steer their boards and management through the process.
The AIA introduced a variety of provisions that affect patent litigation, including four new post-grant proceedings adjudicated by a new Patent Trials and Appeal Board to challenge the validity of a patent. This article discusses trends in how patent ligation is approached and conducted in this new landscape.
A list of resources on warranties in commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer contracts.
An overview of software security issues as well as a discussion of a risk management team's role in the event of a data security breach.
This Top Ten is based on discussions with a few of the author's nonprofit general counsel friends, as well as his experience in working as outside counsel for organizations that recently hired new in-house counsel. While not comprehensive, it hits those important points to consider in your first weeks and months on the job.
This article focuses on how to treat intellectual property (“IP”) and rights to IP in U.S. M&A transactions, particularly in the technology and life sciences sectors, in which IP often accounts for a substantial amount of Target’s value in the deal.
The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in recent years has overlapped with the enactment of comprehensive privacy laws by U.S. states. Several of the comprehensive state privacy laws have provisions that specifically address certain uses of AI systems, in particular use in profiling.
This article surveys those provisions and assumes the reader is already familiar with basic concepts in the comprehensive privacy laws, such as controllership and applicability thresholds.
The proverbial gauntlet has been thrown down — law departments are increasingly challenged to be more service-oriented and less costly. It may sound like an impossible task and for some, it may well be. But there’s another possible solution: off shoring.
One year into the auto-enrolment regime, some of the complexities encountered so far by employers in practice will shortly be ironed out. New regulations will introduce more flexibility for employers, including those who have already staged into the regime. The changes cover a range of issues, from basic elements such as the deadline for auto-enrolling an eligible worker to technical points on the test scheme standards; and introduce alternative definitions of pay reference periods.
This Quick Overview addresses how the Precision Medicine Initiative (the "PMI") allows targeted therapies to be deployed that are more likely to be efficacious, less likely to lead to adverse side effects, and, in many circumstances, more cost-effective for both the patient and society at large than current approaches to many different illnesses.
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