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”.
An inquiry into the actions of the National Bullying Helpline has been launched by the Charity Commission following the receipt...
Thursday was international data privacy day and, says Origin Storage, the storage systems integration specialist, a report released to coincide with...
Nearly 50 MPs have “condemned” a website launched by an employment lawyer to name and shame serial litigants.
Gordon Turner,...
A work experience student has been found guilty of conducting £110,000-worth of insider trading at an investment bank which offered...
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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In the first case of its kind, the US District Court in New Jersey has ruled an employer that requested...
Construction union Ucatt has welcomed the decision to send a blacklister to crown court for sentencing, where he could face...
Construction union Ucatt has welcomed the decision to send a blacklister to crown court for sentencing, where he could face...
The government is to introduce new regulations to prevent union members being denied employment by secret blacklists.
In March the...
Recent figures show a sharp rise in claims against ex-employees taking confidential information from their previous employers.
