July 6, 2010

Supreme Court Upholds Public Employer’s Search of Employee’s Personal Text Messages: The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a government employer’s search of an employee’s text messages stored on an employer-issued pager was reasonable and did not violate the employee’s privacy rights. In City of Ontario v. Quon, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 4972 (U.S. June 17, Read more

DOL clarifies FMLA “son or daughter” caregiver leave: On June 22, 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued Administrator’s Interpretation No. 2010-3 clarifying the circumstances under which a person stands “in loco parentis” to a child for purposes of taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) (29 U.S.C. § 2601 et. Read more