ARTICLE · 01 FEBRUARY 2024

New Year, New Data Protection Laws: What Employers Should Know

Littler Mendelson

With the governor's signing of New Jersey's privacy law on January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the 14th U.S. state to pass a comprehensive data protection law.

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Fourteen states have adopted comprehensive data protection laws, most of which will take effect within the next two years.
Of these laws, only the California Privacy Rights Act applies to HR data.
Nevertheless, employment counsel and HR professionals will be involved in assisting their organizations to comply with the broad range of responsibilities these laws impose.
States are also proposing and enacting smaller laws applicable to HR data.

With the governor's signing of New Jersey's privacy law on January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the 14th U.S. state to pass a comprehensive data protection law. This accelerating legislative trend may have employment counsel and HR professionals worried about how to prepare for the burdensome privacy obligations these laws impose. The good news for employers is that the majority of these laws exempt data collected about employees, job applicants, and other "HR data." Nevertheless, employers do

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New Year, New Data Protection Laws: What Employers Should Know

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