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Privacy & Data Protection
Privacy
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No matter the size of a business, workplace privacy is an issue. From background checks and cross-border transfers of information within multi-national corporations to employee "blogging," more and more aspects of the employer-employee relationship are raising privacy concerns. Properly resolving those concerns presents an enormous challenge for employers as the web of federal, state, local, and international privacy laws becomes increasingly complex.
Littler Mendelson advises a wide range of businesses on successfully navigating this intersection of privacy law and today's technology-driven workplace. Littler's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group (P&DP Practice Group) has the expertise to help clients avoid costly civil litigation and government enforcement actions, not to mention the bad publicity and loss of goodwill that often accompany these disputes.
As part of Littler's Compliance Practice, the P&DP Practice Group focuses on the emerging privacy issues facing today's employers. Every day, Littler attorneys help companies: reduce the risk of workplace ID theft and respond appropriately when it occurs; meet the challenge of on-going compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules; develop appropriate policies to regulate the workplace use of the latest technologies; satisfy the requirements of international data protection regimes to ensure the lawful import of information about overseas employees; draft drug and alcohol testing policies and employee assistance agreements that protect the employer and respect employee privacy rights; negotiate outsourcing contracts that protect the employer when third-party service providers breach employee confidentiality; clarify the potential impact of California's newly enacted privacy laws on non-California business; advise businesses of all sizes on the lawful use of background checks for employment purposes; and defend claims alleging a privacy or security breach.
Littler is at the forefront of this developing area, and the Firm's goal is to find new ways to help clients maximize available technology while minimizing their exposure to litigation and government enforcement actions.
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