December 2018
Thursday, December 26, 2018
Smartphones, Tablets & Social: Workplace Issues for Employers
Program Description
Most employees carry with them powerful computing devices – smartphone and tablets – that they use for mixed personal and professional use. These devices can enhance or hinder productivity. The powerful communications capabilities of these devices enable a range of activity which exposes employers to liability. Every day employers struggle with crafting policies that allow employees autonomy to use their devise, even channel them to productive work use, but limit their exposure to liability, including allegations that employers are invading the privacy of employees. This program will provide you with a practical guide to points of employer liability for employee use, on the job or for work, of smart devise and best practices to limit that liability.
- Smart devise in the workplace – enabling productive behavior and limiting liability
- Monitoring workplace usage and potential violations/liability for invasions of privacy
- Wage and hour issues – when does the workday begin and end when employees are never disconnected?
- EEO violations, discrimination and harassment risks when devices are used for mixed professional/personal use
- Obtaining digital evidence from employee devices – what’s allowed, what’s not?
- Safety/driving/tort issues and considerations for employers
- Best practices in preserving employer trade secret issues
Faculty:
Julie Lal is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Paul Hastings, LLP, where she represents employers in all aspects of employment law. She has substantial experience defending clients in individual and class action claims involving harassment, discrimination, and other wage and hour claims. She also has an active preventive practice, counseling clients about best practices to avoid workplace liability. Before entering private practice, she served as a judicial extern to Justice Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court. Ms. Lal earned her B.A.,cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall.