by Anna Denton | Dec 3, 2015 | Articles, Disability
Over the years the courts have made it pretty clear that it doesn’t matter how your disability has come about, it is whether or not you are suffering from a disability that is relevant. So it doesn’t matter whether you have indulged in a high risk sport which has left...
by Anna Denton | Nov 26, 2015 | Articles, Data Protection, Videos
In this last week we consider the risks of failing to comply with a Subject Access Request and answer some Frequentlly Asked Questions. Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I require individuals to use a specifically designed form to make Subject Access Requests on? A:...
by Anna Denton | Nov 19, 2015 | Articles, Data Protection, Videos
In this third in our series we look at how you respond to a request and what you actually need to disclose, and what to do if you think the employee has already had it. What if we’ve already given material to the employee? You may have been in correspondence...
by Anna Denton | Nov 5, 2015 | Articles, Data Protection, News, Videos
Following the success of last year’s Knowledge November where we took a really in-depth look at Shared Parental Leave, this year we are focussing on Subject Access Requests by employees under Section 7 of the Data Protection Act. Under that Section, a data...
by Anna Denton | Oct 22, 2015 | Articles
I read this week about Andrew Collins who had brought an unfair dismissal claim against his employer, Cableline. His employer had accused him of breaching its trust by sharing details of a potential piece of business it was bidding for to a competitor over lunch. The...
by Anna Denton | Oct 15, 2015 | Articles, redundancies
Under Section 193 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 employers are obliged to notify the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on a form HR1 where they are proposing to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one...