Fergal Dowling
Managing Partner - Business Services Group
Employee Data Protection
Our employment solicitors can help you ensure that you don’t break data protection rules and protect your business against data breaches.
Protect your employee’s data with our expert support
Our employment solicitors can review your policies and procedures and pinpoint any areas where you’re not legally compliant.
Employee data regulations are complex and it can be difficult to know how they apply to all aspects of your business. You may not even realise you’re not complying, but if you get this wrong and breach data protection rules, you can be fined and your staff can bring claims against you.
Our experienced employment and data protection solicitors provide a bespoke service that’ll help you and your HR teams manage your use of employee data in the correct way.
Our team will start by giving you a questionnaire to identify the ways you use personal information. We’ll work through the answers with you and assess where you aren’t complying with GDPR or could improve. From there we’ll help you take practical steps to update your policies and procedures.
Breaching data protection rules can have serious consequences and may lead to an investigation or court proceedings. If you do face an investigation, our experienced data protection solicitors can help you respond to the investigation and, if necessary, represent you in court.
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Making an enquiry
We have several ways you can contact us, either by completing our online contact form, by phone, or using our live chat. If you start your journey online, here are the first steps to working together.
Complete our online formWe need a few details to understand your situation and the kind of support you need.
We’ll contact you by phoneOn the call our experts will ask you a few more questions to make sure we connect you with the right legal advice from our team.
We arrange a full appointmentYour next step is an in-depth appointment with a specialist solicitor to discuss how we could advise you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about employee data protection issues, your duties to your employees, and how we can help.Businesses collect personal data from their employees, workers and even job applicants. Any use of this information must be used lawfully and comply with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Before GDPR, many businesses included a consent clause in their employment contracts asking employees to agree to their employers using personal data for a wide range of reasons. It was difficult for employees to refuse consent, and this method didn’t give employees much choice over how or why their data was being used.
It’s much more difficult to rely on consent under GDPR and in most cases employers will need to find another lawful reason to process information about their staff. You’ll also need to tell your staff what these are and how you’re using their information in a privacy notice.
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