What is the best way to protect against employee lawsuits? We recently received an inquiry about the best ways for businesses to protect against employee lawsuits. We’ve found that most employee lawsuits occur due to low morale, unaddressed personality conflicts, disparate productivity between employees and/or failure to give effective performance reviews. Of course, it is…
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Employee Who Read and Printed Coworker’s Emails Found Not Guilty of Violating the Stored Communications Act
A New Jersey court recently held that a teacher who accessed and printed a co-worker’s personal email after the coworker left the computer without signing out of her account was not guilty of a crime. By Alice Cheng In Marcus v. Rogers, 2012 WL 2428046 (N.J.Super.A.D. June 28, 2012), a New Jersey court held that a…
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Social Media and the Workplace
No one wants to lose his or her job over a Facebook post. However, most employees also do not think twice before griping about a boss in a status update, or posting a picture from last Friday night on a coworker’s wall. While free speech has historically been protected in the United States, there can also be…
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New Jersey Considers Prohibition on Requiring Disclosure Of Personal Account Passwords
The proposed bill prohibits an employer from requiring a current or prospective employee to provide access to a personal account or even asking if they have an account or profile on a social networking website. By Alice Cheng Last month, a New Jersey Assembly committee approved a measure that would prohibit an employer from requiring a current or prospective employee…
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