Executive Summary:  Illinois has joined a growing trend to protect workers from employers who want access to their Facebook or other social networking accounts.  On August 1, 2012, Governor Quinn signed into law an amendment to the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act.

Under the law, which is effective January 1, 2013, it will be unlawful for any employer to request or require an employee or prospective employee to provide any password or other […]

Fifteen day fines were recently imposed on representatives of the Stevedore Worker Associations of Helsinki and Kotka by the Helsinki and Kymenlaakso District Courts for initiating work stoppages in breach of the advance notification requirement under the Act on Conciliation of Labor Conflicts (1962/420) (the “Act”).

In February 2010, strikes by stevedores in Helsinki and in Kotka garnered considerable national media attention. In both cities, the “speed-up strikes” coincided with collective agreement negotiations. Representatives of […]