HR Briefing - February 2025

Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package.

Personal data and DSARs

How do you define personal data? How far does a data controller have to go in searching for personal data? Tabitha Al-Mahdawie and colleagues from our Litigation team examine these tricky questions in this article.

Post-termination restrictions and sick leave

Post-termination restrictions last for a set period of time, where the period is often reduced by any time spent on garden leave (because the employee is out of the market, so not engaging with clients or holding confidential information). But what happens if an employee resigns, is asked to work out their notice instead of being put on garden leave, but then actually does no work because of sickness absence? Does it matter if the sickness is genuine? These interesting issues have come before the High Court in a recent