GDPR Preparation For HR Teams

With GDPR D-Day looming less than a month away, there is a noticeable increase in the work which companies and particularly HR teams are doing to prepare for 25 May.

There are many aspects of GDPR with which busy HR professionals need to get to grips. This article aims to help with issues relating to the lawful grounds for processing employee data, the types of data about employees which you will be able to hold, and employee privacy notices. This will be relevant once a data protection audit has been conducted and the employer has established the flow of data throughout its business.

Out with consent (mostly)

During the last couple of decades, employers – almost universally – have relied on employees giving their consent to processing their data, despite the fact this is probably not compliant with the Data Protection Act. This means that most contracts of employment include a data protection clause under which employees purportedly give their consent to their