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 row between the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and a recruitment agency about confidential job references could have serious implications...
The Information Commissioner has backed the use of file markers to highlight the danger posed by certain individuals to employees.
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The government risked being sued by members of the public after a sacked Jobcentre worker was given confidential details of...
Laptop computers containing the payroll details of half of the Metropolitan Police staff have been stolen.Scotland Yard has confirmed the computers...
Almost a quarter of employees in Britain feel their employers do not care about their privacy, with 10% of employees...
Imprisonment and unlimited fines added to arsenal of weapons available in data protection cases.
Sue Nickson, international head of employment at Hammonds, offers advice on how to draft a data protection policy
The UK's data protection watchdog is to step up enforcement action on companies that flout the Data Protection Act.
The UK’s Information Commissioner has allowed the transfer of personal data outside the EU, authorising General Electric to pass employee information within the group to its offices overseas under “binding corporate rules”
The Information Commissioner’s Office has produced a guide to help employers understand how the Data Protection Act applies to employee references
Employers have been urged to guard against corporate data theft as companies wind down their operations over the Christmas holidays.
Catherine Taylor, partner, Olswang, answers this week's legal dilemma on subject access requests
More than half of UK companies surveyed have been victims of economic crime in the last two years, according to new research
Renfrewshire Council is the latest employer to hit the headlines over computer misuse, with the dismissal of nine employees for inappropriate e-mail use
Nikki Duncan, partner at Bond Pearce Solicitors, outlines the legislation relating to monitoring employees
