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 European Commission has published its proposal for a new data protection law in what is widely regarded as the...
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One of my employees has just sent the company’s entire salary list to all our staff. This has caused uproar...
I’ve received a letter from a current employee in which she asks for details of all personal information the company...
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Nearly 50 MPs have “condemned” a website launched by an employment lawyer to name and shame serial litigants.
Gordon Turner,...
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A T-Mobile employee is facing prosecution after selling personal details of thousands of British customers to rival companies in an...
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