Data Protection implications of an employee being suspected of involvement in a serious offence
A recent case hit the High Court involving an employee in relation to her conduct which may have involved a criminal offence. She was arrested but was not charged. The employer was HMRC but the principles will be of wider applicability. The...Using another employees email inbox
There may be lots of good reasons why you need to access someone else’s in box. They may have left your organisation and you may be monitoring their emails in order to deal with correspondence sent in the ordinary course of what your organisation does, they may...Gender Reassignment and Data Protection
An employee has told you that she intends to transition to a male identity and that after she returns from her holiday she expects you to change her name on all relevant records. This raises lots of different issues but what are the Data Protection Act implications?...Subject Access Requests under the Data Protection Act – can an employee access a manager’s personal email?
Imagine this scenario; a manager is concerned about a highly IT savvy employee who knows their password, so is uncomfortable dealing with HR or gaining legal advice using their work email address. The manager gives out their home or personal email address to the...Get serious about data protection
In HR we pride ourselves on being alive to issues like confidentiality around staff information and probably have at least a passing understanding of data protection and an individual’s right to make a subject access request, probably seeing examples of this...
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