In 1998 David Beckham sported a sarong, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton were outed for their antics with a cigar, and TV hard man Bear Grylls became the youngest British mountaineer to climb Mount Everest. Less memorably, it was the year the Data Pr  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Employers risk losing valuable commercial and customer data if they do not train their staff on the dangers associated with working online, the TUC has claimed. The union body's warning followed this week's publication of the 2008 Get Safe Online   More...
21 November 2008 14:18

HR blunders were partly to blame for staff fraud and theft, costing government departments £4.3m last year. An official study out last week found that 761 cases of internal fraud or theft were reported to 25 of the government's 47 departments and a  More...
10 November 2008 07:43

A data security expert has called for senior IT staff made redundant as a result of the economic downturn to be placed on gardening leave to stop them walking off with potentially damaging information. Greg Day, security analyst at software security  More...
10 October 2008 15:38

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost personal details of about 100,000 Armed Forces employees after a computer hard drive went missing. IT contractor EDS informed the MoD about the missing hard drive when it carried out an audit on Wednesday.   More...
10 October 2008 14:32

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: A survey of 5,000 HR professional shows men earn 20% more than their female colleagues We look at what the European Court of Justice advocate general's decision means fo  More...
26 September 2008 15:16

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: union boss Derek Simpson warns HR should "prepare for war" as strike action continues because of pay cuts prison staff details go missing in the latest data loss saga and we deba  More...
12 September 2008 18:22

Security experts and trade unions have urged employers to step up efforts to stop rogue employees stealing staff information, in the wake of the loss of data on 5,000 prison workers. Global IT-provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which is also res  More...
12 September 2008 07:10

A security analyst has warned HR directors they are "under threat" from computer hackers hunting for employee data, after unearthing a huge operation. Anti-virus software giant McAfee discovered a scam targeting users of global recruitment website M  More...
18 July 2008 11:00

Civil servants handling personal information will have to undergo annual training as part of a range of measures to prevent a repeat of data loss scandal that hit HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) last year. Cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell publis  More...
26 June 2008 09:24

One-third of workers have sneaked a preview of sensitive company information on laptops or confidential work documents while travelling on trains, a survey has revealed. A survey by flexible working provider Regus out this week also found that more t  More...
20 June 2008 10:00

HR news and analysis including: Imelda Walsh talks exclusively to Personnel Today on the flexible working review to extend the right to request flexbile working to parents of children aged 16 and under HR directors from Topps Tiles and   More...
16 May 2008 16:58

Lancaster University reprimanded its head of economics professor Geraint Johnes for breaching data protection rules by telling a concerned mother about her son's performance. According to a report in the Times Higher Education Supplement , the s  More...
16 May 2008 10:57

A country-wide database of 'workplace offenders' will be launched later this month to combat the annual loss of half-a-billion pounds through staff theft and fraud. The National Staff Dismissal Register will allow employers to share and access detai  More...
08 May 2008 14:58

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has suspended its main board after an external review highlighted leadership failings in the wake of its loss of two CDs containing the child benefit data on 25 million people. An interim panel of advisers from the  More...
16 April 2008 12:05

The recent media spotlight on the expenses claims of MPs should be a reminder to employers to keep an eye on the expenses claims of their own staff. In fact, recent surveys suggest that 5% to 20% of all expenses claims are either inflated or simply fic  More...
17 March 2008 16:00

Plans to publish employment tribunal judgments on the internet have been delayed, according to the government. Tribunals minister Bridget Prentice said the Employment Tribunals Service had decided to shelve plans to make decisions available online  More...
14 March 2008 08:29

With all the hype today regarding data protection, I feel I have to write about what happened to me. A pensioned off member of staff of a well known bank has given a witness statement on behalf of the applicant in a tribunal hearing.  T  More...
20 February 2008 15:08

HR directors have dismissed the use of technology to monitor workers' stress levels as "bonkers". Technology giant Microsoft announced last month that it had applied for a patent to use wireless infra-red sensors to monitor changes in workers' hea  More...
15 February 2008 08:36

Given the recent press speculation about the 'Spyware' software favoured by Microsoft in the US , what are the implications of 'Big Brother' technology in the workplace? And how far can HR practitioners go when it comes to monitoring employees?   More...
28 January 2008 16:24