At A Glance Guide To General Data Protection Regulation For HR Teams

You can read the infographic version of our guide here.

As of 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will reform data protection and privacy laws not only in Europe but across the Channel Islands.

The new rules:

• Create new responsibilities for employers about how they collect, use or store information about their staff
• Give employees new rights about how their data is collected, used and stored – including the right to have data corrected or deleted.

Five things you need to know...

Jersey's Information Commission and Guernsey's Data Protection Commissioner will have the power to serve fines of up to £10 million

Where data is lost or stolen, the breaches will have to be reported to the regulator within 72 hours of discovery