Survey Shows Risk Posed by Outbound Emails Is High
A recent survey by Proofpoint, Inc., an email security vendor, found that companies estimate that almost 1 in 4 outgoing emails contains content that poses a legal, financial, or regulatory risk. Furthermore, more than a third of companies employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound email. Here’s a look at other facts uncovered by the survey. Read More

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New Rule Takes Effect Regarding Records Disposal
A final rule from the Federal Trade Commission concerning records disposal took effect June 1, 2005. Are you ready? Reacting to growing concerns about consumer fraud and identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule requiring anyone who maintains “consumer information for a business purpose” to take “reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of information in connection with its disposal.” Read More

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Court Says Employer Can Enforce Sick Leave Policy While Employee Is on FMLA Leave if It Doesn’t Conflict With Act
Brushing aside an employee’s argument that once he was preapproved for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave the Act gave him the right to be “left alone,” the Third Circuit has held that an employer may enforce its sick leave policy against an employee on FMLA leave, so long as the policy does not conflict with nor diminish the protections guaranteed by the FMLA. Read More

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Employee, Fired by College for Complaining About Discrimination at Other Workplace, Has Retaliation Claim
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently reaffirmed the broad scope of the antiretaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by holding that an employer cannot retaliate against its employees who oppose discrimination elsewhere. Read More

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Antiharassment Policy Not Enough for Company to Assert Affirmative Defense
Is adoption and dissemination of an antiharassment policy enough to protect a company from employee harassment claims? Maybe not, according to a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit. The decision provides insight as to how many courts view company EEO efforts and what defenses may be available in future harassment cases. Read More

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City’s Failure to Maintain Employee Drug and Alcohol Test Results as Confidential May Violate the ADA
Recently, a federal district court held that an employee could pursue a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that the city violated his rights under the ADA when it released the results of his random drug and alcohol test to the press. Read More

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Meeting Management Basics: How to Get More out of Time Spent in Meetings
Meetings cost organizations billions of dollars each year. In fact, a recent Microsoft productivity study of 38,000 people worldwide reported that the average worker spends a total of 17 hours a week in unproductive work, mostly consisting of time wasted in unproductive meetings. The following ideas should assist in streamlining your meetings to make sure that you plan, execute, and analyze your meetings for optimal effectiveness. Read More

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Strategies for Protecting Trade Secrets and Proprietary Information
A company can devise and implement a variety of strategies to protect itself from the loss and exposure of valuable intellectual assets at the hands of former employees. These strategies range from preventative tools to help train employees from the outset of their employment, to rapid response measures to help ensure swift action in the event of potential disclosure or use of trade secrets or confidential information by a former employee. Read More

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