This document outlines 10 actions companies can take to better protect their trade secrets. It discusses updating policies, ensuring proper confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements are in place, creating a culture of confidentiality within the company, implementing smartphone and social media policies, and addressing risks associated with telecommuting employees. Taking proactive steps like these can help companies establish that they made reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy over their trade secrets and intellectual property.
As an employer, you have more authority to monitor employee communications than you might think. It depends in large measure on the level of privacy you have led employees to expect, whether explicitly or implicitly. Managing those expectations is the key to maintaining your rights. For more information, please visit http://www.hrp.net/2017/06/can-you-monitor-your-employees-communications/
PowerPoint slides from general session of the Grow Revenue: Get Online and Boost Sales Restaurant Education Series event hosted by the Ohio Restaurant Association for their members. Speakers included Jarrod Clabaugh of the Ohio Restaurant Association and Jaime Kolligian of Kastner Westman and Wilkins.
2012 05 30 Report of the Acting General Counsel concerning social media casesKrishna De
For further information visit:
http://www.nlrb.gov/news/acting-general-counsel-releases-report-employer-social-media-policies
For a curated summary relating to the NLRB Costco ruling visit:
http://storify.com/krishnade/costco-national-labor-relations-board-ruling-affec
http://bgn.bz/costco
As an employer, you have more authority to monitor employee communications than you might think. It depends in large measure on the level of privacy you have led employees to expect, whether explicitly or implicitly. Managing those expectations is the key to maintaining your rights. For more information, please visit http://www.hrp.net/2017/06/can-you-monitor-your-employees-communications/
PowerPoint slides from general session of the Grow Revenue: Get Online and Boost Sales Restaurant Education Series event hosted by the Ohio Restaurant Association for their members. Speakers included Jarrod Clabaugh of the Ohio Restaurant Association and Jaime Kolligian of Kastner Westman and Wilkins.
2012 05 30 Report of the Acting General Counsel concerning social media casesKrishna De
For further information visit:
http://www.nlrb.gov/news/acting-general-counsel-releases-report-employer-social-media-policies
For a curated summary relating to the NLRB Costco ruling visit:
http://storify.com/krishnade/costco-national-labor-relations-board-ruling-affec
http://bgn.bz/costco
Social media & data protection policy v1.0 141112 Dave Shannon
Presentation presented to employees in a previous role. Unfortunately corporate identity has had to be removed, however content is still relevant to policies and legislation
2012 01 24 Report of the Acting General Counsel concerning social media casesKrishna De
For further information go to:
http://www.nlrb.gov/news/acting-general-counsel-issues-second-social-media-report
For a curated summary relating to the NLRB Costco ruling visit:
http://storify.com/krishnade/costco-national-labor-relations-board-ruling-affec
http://bgn.bz/costco
Dmytro talked on an OSAC quarterly meeting and explained legal background for monitoring of employees correspondence, phone calls, spy after employees. He compared Ukrainian legislation and rare Ukrainian enforcement experience with US laws and court practice.
Certain workplace behavior policies might seem entirely reasonable to have in your employee manual. But reasonableness is in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is the National Labor Relations Board, seeing eye-to-eye may require some adjustment. One such behavior policy centers on employees discussing their wages among themselves. Here's what you need to know.
This is a narrow look at two issues related to social media look by employees - monitoring workplace computers and employee publication and "off duty" conduct.
Social Media in the Workplace
Linky Trott
Abstract
There is no doubt that most businesses use social media and collaboration tools
such as social business software of some kind or another and embrace the
benefits that these can bring. In a 2009 a global Manpower survey, businesses
identified the main benefits of using social media as; brand building, fostering
collaboration and communication, as way of recruiting new talent, improving
employee engagement and driving innovation.
But there are also risks. This article examines the main legal risks that can arise
in the workplace as between a business and its workforce and considers how
the Courts and Tribunals are responding to social media issues arising in the
workplace.
Introduction
If a business has a concern about the use of social media, a blanket ban is
clearly an option. Whilst that may feel like the most simple approach, it is
unlikely to be practical. Even as far back as 2009, the Manpower survey
observed that “the younger generation consider social media tools as a
Biography
Linky Trott is a Partner at law firm, Edwin Coe. She provides day to day advice on a
comprehensive range of employment issues for established corporate clients including
the negotiation and provision of strategic advice on severance arrangements, bullying
and harassment claims, the management of ill health and capability dismissals, dealing
with allegations of discrimination, collective redundancies and Board disputes.
Linky also undertakes High Court injunctive work to enforce or resist post termination
restraints and the protection of confidential information. Working with Senior
Executives and Board Directors, Linky regularly advises and helps to negotiate terms
of Executive service agreements to include bonus schemes, guaranteed payments and
share options in regulated and non regulated industries. She has provided strategic
advice on a number of successful team moves within the communications and financial
sector acting for both the poaching competitor and the individuals being approached.
Linky also advises on data protection, commercial agents and the Conduct of
Employment Businesses and Employment Agency issues.
Linky sits on the Employment Committee of the Law Society and is Chair on the In and
Around Covent Garden Business Forum. She is also a member of the Employment
Lawyers Association, and has appeared on ITV and Channel 4 commenting on
Employment Law issues arising in the news and is a regular speaker at conferences on
employment issues.
Linky Trott
Partner
Edwin Coe
Keywords Risk, Rewards, Safeguards, Recruitment, Human Rights Act 1998
Paper type Opinion
23 Credit Control
Legal Aspects
prerequisite for doing business” and with generation Y having been in the
workplace for around ten years, it is unlikely that staff will tolerate a blanket ban.
Time wasters
Employers can of course monitor an employe.
Social media & data protection policy v1.0 141112 Dave Shannon
Presentation presented to employees in a previous role. Unfortunately corporate identity has had to be removed, however content is still relevant to policies and legislation
2012 01 24 Report of the Acting General Counsel concerning social media casesKrishna De
For further information go to:
http://www.nlrb.gov/news/acting-general-counsel-issues-second-social-media-report
For a curated summary relating to the NLRB Costco ruling visit:
http://storify.com/krishnade/costco-national-labor-relations-board-ruling-affec
http://bgn.bz/costco
Dmytro talked on an OSAC quarterly meeting and explained legal background for monitoring of employees correspondence, phone calls, spy after employees. He compared Ukrainian legislation and rare Ukrainian enforcement experience with US laws and court practice.
Certain workplace behavior policies might seem entirely reasonable to have in your employee manual. But reasonableness is in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is the National Labor Relations Board, seeing eye-to-eye may require some adjustment. One such behavior policy centers on employees discussing their wages among themselves. Here's what you need to know.
This is a narrow look at two issues related to social media look by employees - monitoring workplace computers and employee publication and "off duty" conduct.
Social Media in the Workplace
Linky Trott
Abstract
There is no doubt that most businesses use social media and collaboration tools
such as social business software of some kind or another and embrace the
benefits that these can bring. In a 2009 a global Manpower survey, businesses
identified the main benefits of using social media as; brand building, fostering
collaboration and communication, as way of recruiting new talent, improving
employee engagement and driving innovation.
But there are also risks. This article examines the main legal risks that can arise
in the workplace as between a business and its workforce and considers how
the Courts and Tribunals are responding to social media issues arising in the
workplace.
Introduction
If a business has a concern about the use of social media, a blanket ban is
clearly an option. Whilst that may feel like the most simple approach, it is
unlikely to be practical. Even as far back as 2009, the Manpower survey
observed that “the younger generation consider social media tools as a
Biography
Linky Trott is a Partner at law firm, Edwin Coe. She provides day to day advice on a
comprehensive range of employment issues for established corporate clients including
the negotiation and provision of strategic advice on severance arrangements, bullying
and harassment claims, the management of ill health and capability dismissals, dealing
with allegations of discrimination, collective redundancies and Board disputes.
Linky also undertakes High Court injunctive work to enforce or resist post termination
restraints and the protection of confidential information. Working with Senior
Executives and Board Directors, Linky regularly advises and helps to negotiate terms
of Executive service agreements to include bonus schemes, guaranteed payments and
share options in regulated and non regulated industries. She has provided strategic
advice on a number of successful team moves within the communications and financial
sector acting for both the poaching competitor and the individuals being approached.
Linky also advises on data protection, commercial agents and the Conduct of
Employment Businesses and Employment Agency issues.
Linky sits on the Employment Committee of the Law Society and is Chair on the In and
Around Covent Garden Business Forum. She is also a member of the Employment
Lawyers Association, and has appeared on ITV and Channel 4 commenting on
Employment Law issues arising in the news and is a regular speaker at conferences on
employment issues.
Linky Trott
Partner
Edwin Coe
Keywords Risk, Rewards, Safeguards, Recruitment, Human Rights Act 1998
Paper type Opinion
23 Credit Control
Legal Aspects
prerequisite for doing business” and with generation Y having been in the
workplace for around ten years, it is unlikely that staff will tolerate a blanket ban.
Time wasters
Employers can of course monitor an employe.
Affirmative Defense Response System (ADRS)guest95afa8
Mitigating damages and reducing risk before, during and after a data breach occurs is what ADRS is all about. A system that shows "every good faith effort" at protecting the NonPublic Personal Information (NPI) of your customers, employees, and vendors as mandated by the FTC.
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Blake Lapthorn's In-House Lawyer and Decision Makers' forumBlake Morgan
Blake Lapthorn's Litigation Dispute Resolution and Employment teams joined up to present a forum on social media and confidentiality on 17 September 2013, at Blake Lapthorn's Oxford office.
Privacy and Information Security: What Every New Business Needs to KnowThe Capital Network
Reports of data security breaches conjure up images of anonymous computer hackers sitting in a darkened room,
fingers flying over a key board in an effort to hack into a computer system to find valuable information to exploit.
Not long ago, most of us considered these breaches to be infrequent and likely targeted at information much more
commercially unique than the average consumer data stored by most businesses.
On Monday, January 7, 2019, Fredrikson & Byron welcomed you to 620 Jones to reconnect with friends and remember our friend Mike Ellwein during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
5 Social Media Questions All Employers Should Consider Fredrikson & Byron
Leveraging social media is critical to the success of any business today.
Customers use social media as a source for reviews and “word of mouth” referrals.
Without a social media strategy, businesses will miss a key opportunity.
With opportunity, however, comes risk, as organizations need to:
• Protect private information
• Manage liability relating to employee use (and misuse) of social media
• Preserve their online image and brand
In this guide, you will find five key questions relating to social media that all employers should consider.
Learn more about the Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation Act, including it's primary objective to create a new corporate form and through that a new class of corporations whose corporate purpose requires it to create benefit for society generally as well as shareholders.
26. Action Six:
Telecommuting Employees –
Out of Sight Shouldn’t Be Out of Mind
Ten Actions You Can Take Now
to Protect Your Company’s Trade Secrets
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