2020 Q3 Compliance Update: Pandemic Progress

While legislation addressing the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the quarter, lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. still managed to advance an assortment of laws concerning ban the box measures, equal pay, marijuana reform, and worker classification.  Outside of the U.S., monumental shifts in privacy laws made waves.  Alonzo Martinez, HireRight’s Associate Counsel of Compliance provides a discussion of new legislation and litigation affecting employers, including an update on Covid-19 return to work measures.  

Topics Covered:

• Ban the box laws
• Salary history bans
• Marijuana developments
• Worker classification legislation
• Global advances in data privacy (including Privacy Shield and Brazil’s new general data protection law)
• Covid-19 legislation, litigation, and worker screening