President Biden Signs Executive Order Addressing the Use of Artificial Intelligence
On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter the “Executive Order”), addressing artificial intelligence issues for the American people. Specifically, the Executive Order establishes new standards for artificial intelligence relating to safety, security, privacy, civil rights, immigration, and health care. […]
NLRB General Counsel Issues Memorandum Supporting Increased Scrutiny of Electronic Employee Monitoring
On October 31, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released GC Memorandum 23-02, entitled Electronic Monitoring and Algorithmic Management of Employees Interfering with the Exercise of Section 7 Rights. In the memo, she indicated that she plans to “urge the Board to protect employees, to the greatest extent possibly, from intrusive and […]
Key Considerations of Employee Monitoring in the Workplace
Workplace monitoring is subject to a variety of laws regarding when employees have a right to privacy and if and when they must be notified that they are being monitored. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) of 1986 governs an employer’s monitoring of employees’ electronic communications in the workplace. The ECPA prohibits an employer from […]
New York Employers Must Comply with Electronic Monitoring Requirements by May 7, 2022
Effective May 7, 2022, New York employers will be required to provide prior notice concerning the monitoring of employee telephone, email, or internet usage. Specifically, employers must notify employees that “any and all telephone conversations or transmissions, electronic mail or transmissions, or internet access or usage by an employee by any electronic device or system […]
Webinar on May 20th: Impact of the Shift to Remote Work and New Technologies on the Workplace
In this webinar for @work with ALG subscribers, we will: Discuss how new technologies will affect the workplace. Identify how these new technologies will affect your job and the jobs of your employees. Explore ways to initiate change management. Underline the importance of helping employees prepare. Recognize real human anxiety — and also the excitement […]
Webinar on April 14th: Using Risk and Resiliency to Thrive in the New Normal
Nearly 60 percent of Americans currently are working from home. While that number is likely to decrease as the pandemic eases, it won’t return to early 2020 levels. How has that affected you and your career? Join Sima Ali, Esq., and Susan Ganz, MBA, for an informative webinar to learn how to thrive and not just […]
New York Enacts the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act
Submitted by Ali Law Group PC on October 28, 2019 New York recently enacted the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the “SHIELD Act”). The new legislation broadens the scope of information covered under the notification law and updates the notification requirements when there has been a breach of data. It also broadens […]
Company E-Mail Policies: Confidential or Not?
Submitted by Ali Law Group PC on July 28, 2018 In general, courts have taken the position that where a company has issued a policy indicating that private use of company e-mail is not confidential, the employer can review the content of an employee’s personal e-mail communications when sent over company e-mail. For example, in […]
Biometrics in the Workplace
Submitted by Ali Law Group PC on February 17, 2018 Many businesses now use biometrics in the workplace for purposes such as customer access, data security, and to track employee attendance. Biometric time clocks have replaced handwritten or paper timesheets, allowing employees to clock in with fingerprints, palmprints or iris scans. With the use of biometric […]