Companies that hire employees and engage independent contractors in California should brace for a significant slowdown in background checks that include criminal record searches in California state courts.
The California Privacy Rights Act, which goes into effect on January 1, 2023, grants six new rights to California residents in their roles as employees, applicants, independent contractors, and other human resources members.
The California Privacy Rights Act expands employers’ obligations with respect to the privacy of human resources data more dramatically than any other legislation in U.S. history.
This podcast episode covers the big change for employers with respect to information security under the CPRA – the new, affirmative obligation on employers to implement reasonable security policies and practices.
Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial.
With the enactment of the Colorado Privacy Act, Colorado now joins Virginia in transforming the first major state privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, from an outlier into what now appears to be the beginning of an inevitable trend.
At long last, the European Commission, on June 4, 2021, adopted new Standard Contractual Clauses (“new SCCs”) to permit lawful transfers of personal data from the European Union (EU) to third countries such as the United States.
