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Hiring \ Employment Issues
05/24/2012 - Learn how your company can craft a program for deterring harassment in the workplace and properly handle claims when they do occur.
Daily Headline : IT Security
05/04/2012 - Facebook usage in the workplace is on the decline as companies implement social media policies, according to a new report released by firm that provides Web content filtering for companies.
Daily Headline : Hiring \ Employment Issues
05/02/2012 - Members of the ASIS CSO Roundtable share insights on finding a mentor and networking as part of the May digital edition.
Daily Headline : Risk Management
05/01/2012 - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Friday announced the creation of the Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience.
Daily Headline : Web-based Threats
04/11/2012 - Increasingly, employees expect to remain connected to social networking sites while at work. But these sites represent a growing threat in terms of malware, for instance.
Legal Report: Proprietary Information Protection
03/23/2012 - A New Jersey law (formerly A.B. 921) establishes the protection of trade secrets and establishes penalties for violation of the law. The law is a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adopted by most U.S. states. (New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Texas are the only states that have yet to adopt a similar law.)
Legal Report: Hiring \ Employment Issues
03/23/2012 - A bill (H.R. 2501) introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) would make it illegal for employers to discriminate against unemployed applicants. The bill would also prohibit advertising a job and indicating that unemployed status is a disqualification.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
03/23/2012 - A man whose coworkers locked him in a lavatory for approximately 25 minutes may not pursue his false imprisonment case against his employer. The man was locked inside the lavatory on a ship during a corporate event by his coworkers as a prank. A jury found that the man’s confinement was “brief or fleeting” and did not rise to the level of false imprisonment.
Beyond Print: Privacy
03/23/2012 - A state supreme court has ruled that an employee may pursue her invasion of privacy claim against her employer after she discovered a video camera in the company bathroom. The employer, who had placed the camera there in an attempt to document wrongdoing, argued that there was no invasion of privacy because the camera was not working.
How-to
03/22/2012 - Drum fraud out of your ranks with a top-notch anti-fraud corps to spearhead investigations.
Book Reviews: Crime
03/20/2012 - The authors first note that preventing workplace and school-based violence starts with the understanding that no one can predict violence; rather, the goal is to assess dangerousness based on observations and reports of a person’s behavior.
Daily Headline : Hiring \ Employment Issues
02/29/2012 - Courts are struggling to apply decades-old privacy and electronic security laws to employment issues arising in the digital arena. The newest challenges involve social media and what companies can do.
Beyond Print: Workplace Violence
02/28/2012 - A California court has ruled that a company can rely on hearsay evidence in pursuing a restraining order against a potentially violent visitor.
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