All employment relationships require the collection and use of personal data and therefore compliance with data privacy law has become an everyday aspect of our clients’ working relationships.

Data is everywhere
All employment relationships require the collection and use of personal data and therefore compliance with data privacy law has become an everyday aspect of our clients’ working relationships.
Individual requests (all aspects of the request process – receipt, extensions, grounds for non-compliance, document search, review and redact, application of exemptions, responses
Lawful use in an HR context (such as ill-health absence, occupational health issues, reasonable adjustments and equality of opportunity monitoring) and related regulatory requirements.
Ranging from general (for example, advising on the lawful use of workplace CCTV) to more targeted or covert (for example, monitoring communications in cases of serious misconduct).
Data privacy law advice across the entire lifecycle of the employment relationship.
Preparation and guidance for multiple simultaneous requests (for example in response to organisational redundancies.
Advising on data privacy law risks arising from contracts with individuals and organisations.
Assisting clients to take both preparatory and reactive actions to mitigate and defend risks/allegations of vicarious liability for the consequences of breaches of data privacy law caused by human error.
In the context of grievances, disputes and tribunal litigation
For example, staff privacy notices, organisational data protection policies and data retention guidelines.
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