The California Privacy Rights Act, effective January 1, 2023, will impose specific notice obligations on employers. This article focuses on one such requirement: a privacy policy that must be posted online or on the employer’s internet website.
The impending effective date of the California Privacy Rights Act has created a lengthy list of compliance tasks for corporate HR and legal teams, including preparing and implementing an addendum for service agreements with vendors that handle HR data.
In the last few years, a flurry of state privacy legislation has bolstered protections for everything from biometric data to rights of deletion. Location data is no exception.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed an employee’s wrongful dismissal claim and held that his surreptitious recording of conversations with his colleagues justified the termination of his employment for just cause.
On the heels of the passage of the Working for Workers Act, 2021, Ontario introduced Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88) on February 28, 2022, and carried it at First Reading.
On January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) will go into effect and California employers will be required to develop a compliance model to address the range of new privacy rights granted to their workforce members under the law.
While employers generally provide some form of notice of electronic monitoring, as a matter of practice, in their employee handbook, New York now requires transparency about workplace monitoring as a matter of law.
Employers that want to rely on the app would do well to draw up a policy covering the measures for providing a safe workplace. If it is necessary to know who has been vaccinated, tested and/or who has recovered, the use of the app likely is justifiable.
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.
