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New Minnesota Law Will Render Most Employment Applications Now In Use Unlawful
May 23, 2013While our post today from our colleague, Ingrid Culp, is on a topic we don’t typically cover, it’s important for businesses with Minnesota employees to know about this new...
Read moreI.B.M.’s CEO on Management, Big Data, and the Power of Today’s Technology
May 17, 2013“Big Data” means different things to different people. In a March 7th, speech, Virginia Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, provided her take on “Big Data”...
Read moreBeing Tricked into Firing an Employee is Not a Defense – More From the NLRB on Facebook Firings
May 6, 2013We’re extremely pleased to have another guest blogger this week – our colleague, Karen Schanfield. Karen is a shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Employment &...
Read moreBeing Proactive May Reduce Risk for Corporate Raiding and Loss of Sensitive Company Information
April 22, 2013We are always pleased when colleagues send us posts for our blog. This week, Emily Duke, the Co-Chair of Fredrikson’s E-Discovery Resources and Franchise Groups, wrote...
Read moreA Reminder to Avoid Prying Into Private Group Facebook Pages!
April 12, 2013We haven’t seen a lot of Facebook firing cases coming out of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") recently, but on April 3, 2013, the NLRB’s General Counsel released...
Read moreA Checklist for Corporate Directors and the C-Suite: Data Privacy and Security Oversight
March 28, 2013My colleague Steve Helland and I were talking this week about data privacy and security at a meeting of the firm's Privacy group. Steve chairs the firm's Internet,...
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- May 23 2013 : New Minnesota Law Will Render Most Employment Applications Now In Use Unlawful (No Comments)
While our post today from our colleague, Ingrid Culp, is on a topic we don’t typically cover, it’s important for businesses with Minnesota employees to know about this new law. [More...]
- May 17 2013 : I.B.M.’s CEO on Management, Big Data, and the Power of Today’s Technology (No Comments)
“Big Data” means different things to different people. In a March 7th, speech, Virginia Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, provided her take on “Big Data” and I thought [More...]
- May 6 2013 : Being Tricked into Firing an Employee is Not a Defense – More From the NLRB on Facebook Firings (No Comments)
We’re extremely pleased to have another guest blogger this week – our colleague, Karen Schanfield. Karen is a shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Employment & Labor Law Group, and, among [More...]
- Apr 22 2013 : Being Proactive May Reduce Risk for Corporate Raiding and Loss of Sensitive Company Information (No Comments)
We are always pleased when colleagues send us posts for our blog. This week, Emily Duke, the Co-Chair of Fredrikson’s E-Discovery Resources and Franchise Groups, wrote about the threat of corporate [More...]
- Apr 12 2013 : A Reminder to Avoid Prying Into Private Group Facebook Pages! (No Comments)
We haven’t seen a lot of Facebook firing cases coming out of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") recently, but on April 3, 2013, the NLRB’s General Counsel released an advice [More...]
Contributing Authors
Teresa is the Chair of Fredrikson’s Non-Competes and Trade Secrets Group, and an MSBA Certified Labor and Employment Law Specialist. She counsels business clients on risk management and policy development relating to employee use of technology, and also litigates their business and employment disputes. Teresa trains, writes and lectures extensively on legal issues arising from business use of technology and social media.
Norah is an employment law attorney representing businesses both in and out of the courtroom on employee issues from hiring, to firing, and everything in between. She writes, speaks, and consults on employee use (and misuse) of the Internet, social media, and technology.
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