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”.
A new service from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), to be launched on 8 June 2015, has meant...
Parts of the Fit for Work service, the government-funded occupational health advice service, are now in operation, with the rest...
Eleanor Gelder looks at surrogate mothers and their right to maternity leave, dismissals following post-maternity leave absence and what constitutes personal data...
In DLA Piper’s case of the week, the High Court required a former employee to hand over the details of...
Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe and othersIn DLA Piper’s case of the week, Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe and others,...
Allowing staff to provide their own smartphones and tablets can raise important data protection issues as well as have business...
The European Commission has published its proposal for a new data protection law in what is widely regarded as the...
Can an unsuccessful job applicant demand that the prospective employer provide him or her with documents about the successful applicant?...
Organisations with more than 250 employees will have to designate a data protection officer to ensure that they deal with...
Employers will choose to monitor their employees for a variety of reasons, for example to safeguard their employees, to protect...
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...
The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) seeks to ensure organisations (data controllers) controlling information relating to living individuals (personal data)...
Staff fraud is on the rise. KPMG’s ‘Fraud Barometer’ reveals that, in the first half of 2009, a third of...
Changes to employment law in force from April 2010 include the replacement of the sicknote with a new fit-note system,...
