By Kevin Harlow and Maria Garrett
The holiday season marks a time each year when many of us travel to visit family and friends. As with everything else in 2020, the holidays will likely look
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Introduction:
Dear clients and friends, 
We just finished another year, which means it’s time once again for our yearly global employment law quiz. Have you kept up to date with the latest and zaniest in
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Dozens of employment class actions have been filed against employers with operations in Illinois for alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Those suits relate primarily to the failure to provide required
Continue Reading No Harm, No Foul? Not So, Under Illinois Biometric Privacy Law
At home, social media dilemmas include being 62 weeks deep in a social media account, and accidentally dropping a dreaded double-tap, “liking” a photo and releasing a notification that reveals your not-so-secret surveillance. It gets
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The Labor Dish tackled leave as a reasonable accommodation in 2015 (When Is Enough Leave Enough). Based upon the law at that time, our post suggested that less than 6 months of leave
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Thirty years ago, Ferris Bueller taught us how important a day off is. Fast forward, the recent rise of unlimited paid time off (PTO) policies sounds like Ferris’ heaven. Ferris would definitely take advantage. So
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Jules: Hash is legal there in Amsterdam, right?
Vincent: Yeah, it’s legal, but it ain’t a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can’t just walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffing away.
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When your water cooler is actually a set of water coolers in 40+ countries like at DLA Piper, water cooler talk must be digital. News reports of changes in France’s labor laws — Code du
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Over 500 years after his death, Shakespeare’s works continue to be a touchstone for legal analysis and critique. A fool’s errand it would be to attempt to catalog the legal issues in each of his
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Details matter. The Titanic sank because its center propeller didn’t work in reverse. A Japanese company lost between $225 and $350 million because a typing error caused it to offer thousands of shares for
Continue Reading Background Checks: Minor Mistakes = Major Consequences
