Episode 262: Window for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation Closing Quickly

The business community’s efforts to enact a federal law on data privacy instead of a patchwork of state laws appears to be running out of steam. And ironically, we may have the leading data privacy state, California, to blame for the loss. We are joined once again by Brennan Duckett, Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the National Restaurant Association, to give us the latest and greatest. And a judge pumped the brakes on Gov. DeSantis’ signature, “Stop Woke Act” which would significantly affect employers’ ability to offer DEI and other trainings. We’ll discuss what this could mean for employers. And it was a very busy week on the union organizing front with big news out of Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joes and others. We’ll get our arms around the week that was. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.