Twice Warned, Once Bitten – Using The Bradford Formula In The GDPR Era

What would you do as an employer if someone was to warn you, not once but twice, that unless you stopped following a certain staff monitoring method you could end up having to pay a fine of €82,000? More likely than not, your response would be to take such a warning seriously.

Yet the truth is that in real life and in most situations, it seems that one can never be certain of the outcome of a complaint at the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection. Particularly, the possible actual cost of such an outcome.

Perhaps, as an employer, you have been advised that you have nothing to fear and that you may continue to implement a staff monitoring practice that you not only consider quite reasonable but also have been advised is perfectly legal.