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Medical Marijuana Clouds Drug Testing for Many Workplaces
To date, 29 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes. Some states, such as California, have been grappling with the implications of medicinal marijuana use for several years, while others, such as Pennsylvania, are just beginning to explore the complicated...
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Stormwater Regulation and Fees Will Impact Businesses and Development
Businesses and developers must remain vigilant in tracking proposed local regulation of stormwater. Municipalities throughout Pennsylvania are in the process of implementing local stormwater ordinances and fees that will likely impact land development. Recent changes to federal and state laws have...
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Slack-Fill Litigation Heats Up
Food and beverage companies should evaluate packaging sizes now. You know the feeling when you open a family-size box of candy – that you are not planning to share – and find it only about half full? Sure, the weight of the box and the pronounced rattle that could only be possible with...
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Removing Human Drivers: Anticipating changes to automobile insurance coverage
Phrases like “self-driving vehicles” and “automated driving” are making headlines as manufacturers continue to implement automation in vehicles. Automation involves the use of computers to control certain components involved in operating a vehicle, reducing the extent to...
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Making a Federal Case Out of It: When trade secrets go walking out the door, employers have a new vehicle to try to get them back
The reality for almost every business is that not all of its employees are going to be happy in their jobs and that, at any given time, one or more is going to be seeking greener pastures. Many times those pastures are owned by competitors, and any business owner or CEO who fails to anticipate and...
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What’s Worse Than Getting Phished? Getting Whaled: Five ways company execs can avoid the harpoon
The internet and electronic communications have given rise to a plethora of innovative new criminal activities, some of which have entered the common parlance: phishing and its more targeted cousin, spear-phishing, are chief among those schemes. Less well-known but still aptly named methods of...
Read MoreIs a Discharged Employee Still an Employee? This was the question the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had to answer after a terminated employee sought access to her file
The Pennsylvania Personnel Files Act (also known as the Inspection of Employment Records Law) grants employees in Pennsylvania, or their designated agents, the right to inspect certain portions of their personnel records. The act requires employers, upon an employee’s request, to permit the...
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