The Data Protection Act 1998 requires that employers follow various data protection principles when handling employees’ personal data.
An employee has the right to request access information kept about him or her by the employer, including personnel files, sickness records, disciplinary or training records, appraisal or performance review notes, and emails or documents in which the employee is the focus. Such requests are known as “data subject access requests”.
The vast majority of HR professionals do not have a good understanding of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will introduce significant changes to the data protection regime, along with increased penalties for...
Wearable fitness trackers such as fitbit are promoted as useful tools for wellbeing...
A recent legal case involving messaging service WhatsApp raises issues about monitoring employee communications. Nick Le Riche, a partner at...
ON DEMAND |The General Data Protection Regulation changes how data is processed in the EU, and while it does not come into force until May 2018, employers need to prepare now.
A recent employment law ruling that it was fair to dismiss an employee partly on the basis of an expired...
The Tax-free Childcare scheme is due to be phased in from 28 April 2017, with employers’ childcare voucher schemes being...
Charles Wynn-Evans of Dechert LLP reports on some recent decisions on subject access requests, which will give employers food for...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is consulting on draft guidance on consent under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The...
Can employers have rules on personal relationships at work? Is it harassment for a worker to ask a colleague out...
From April 2017, employers with a paybill of more than £3 million will be required to pay the apprenticeship levy....
CCTV used to require installation by specialist security engineers, but modern small-scale camera systems can now be rigged up by...
The Government published a revised version of the draft Regulations setting out the gender pay gap (GPG) reporting duty on...
Subject access requests – when an employee asks to see any personal data held on them – can throw legal...
