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Employee access to technology creates opportunity for enhanced productivity as well as devastating mischief. Use of technology in and outside the workplace also is blurring the line between work life and personal life. Issues facing every employer will be discussed in this “best practices” program. Do employees have a right to privacy in their e-mail and voice mail? Do employers have a duty to monitor Internet usage at work? Can employers prohibit unions from using employer e-mail systems to communicate with prospective or current members? Can employee blogs outside of work be regulated? Can employers install GPS equipment on company vehicles or in employer-provided mobile phones? Is it compensable time when an employee checks his PDA during non-work hours? Two experts in this rapidly developing area of employment and technology law will answer all of these questions and more. They even will provide you with a model workplace technology policy.

Workforce reductions are constant news in every sector of today’s struggling economy. Improperly executed workforce reductions expose employers to substantial risks of liability, under an array of federal and state statutes, employee benefit plans and employment contracts. Such legal challenges to downsizing decisions are especially likely to be brought as class actions and to receive class action treatment. However, through careful planning, employers can greatly minimize their legal risks by how they structure and implement a workforce reduction. In this program, two experienced employment lawyers discuss the relevant law and offer practical approaches and suggestions for planning and executing workforce reductions in order to minimize your client company’s risk of liability.

Join us for this month’s installment of William Tanenbaum’s popular new series on hot topics in going green and green technology law. Here he and his Kaye Scholer colleague Sydney Unger address carbon credit trading schemes and carbon taxation, their relative advantages and disadvantages, and more.