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Texas Prohibits Businesses and Employers from Requiring Customers to Show Vaccine Passports

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

On June 7, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 968 which prohibits a business from requiring a customer to provide any documentation certifying the customer's COVID-19 vaccination.

Privacy Law Update: European Commission Adopts New Standard Contractual Clauses for Transfers of Personal Data

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted new sets of Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) that organizations can use when transferring personal data protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to countries outside the European Union (EU).

Employee COVID Vaccination Status: You Asked. They Answered. Now What?

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

As employers make plans to modify pandemic-related work-from-home arrangements and require employees to come into the workplace, many have wrestled with “the vaccination status question.” Should employers ask employees whether they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or even require employees

Adverse Employment Action is Not Required To Establish a Failure To Accommodate Claim Under the NJLAD and Subsequent Bodily Injury Claim is Not Barred By the Workers’ Compensation Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

Following our prior client alert published while this matter was before Appellate Division, the New Jersey Supreme Court has now weighed-in, in Richter v. Oakland Board of Education.

The State Ag Report - Volume 7, Issue 23 | June 2021 #2

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

Massachusetts AG Urges Entities to Act Now on Ransomware Threat - Massachusetts AG Maura Healey released a statement urging Massachusetts businesses and government entities, including law enforcement, to immediately assess existing data security practices and take appropriate steps to upgrade se

3 Questions Manufacturing Employers Must Answer to Thrive in a Renewable Energy World

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

The recent White House announcement calling for a monumental increase in the use of renewable energy over the next decade will have plenty of direct and obvious implications for manufacturing employers – but it’s the indirect implications that might catch you by surprise.

ESG Considerations for Investment Managers and a Review of Current ESG Standards and Frameworks

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscape is being shaped by the establishment of various ESG standards and frameworks (summarized and compared herein), many of which have been adopted on a voluntary basis by funds, investment managers, and the companies in which they invest.

Court Upholds Employer’s Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

In what is believed to be the first court decision on the issue of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, the U.S.

Companies Can Protect Proprietary Data When Responding to CCPA Privacy Requests

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

Since its passage almost three years ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has offered California-based consumers certain rights over the personal information companies collect and process about them.

EPA to Revisit Clean Water Act WOTUS Rule

By EsqSocial Corporation 15/06/21

On June 9, 2021, in a move that came as a surprise only for its delay in being announced and not at all in the substance of the announcement itself, the EPA and US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced their intent to revise the definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS).

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