Privacy: Understand the legal pitfalls of monitoring remote employees

Rachel Tozer looks at the issues employers need to work through to help them decide whether electronic staff surveillance is justified An employer needs to be careful about treating one group of employees (such as remote workers) differently to another group (such as office-based workers). Recent reports that the Cabinet Office hopes to persuade civil …
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Employee monitoring: CCTV recording at work – principles and pitfalls

Mike Hibberd warns that it is no easy matter to act on evidence of misconduct or poor performance obtained through electronic surveillance CCTV systems must always be used for a specified purpose to further a legitimate aim and their use must be necessary for meeting an identified pressing need. Employee monitoring is always a hot …
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GDPR: Employee personal data – handle with care

Rhodri Thomas and Marianne Hessey discuss the lessons from the €35m fine imposed on H&M for collecting and storing excessive personal information on employees The amount of information that employers gather and use must be limited to what is necessary. They will therefore almost certainly find it is not possible to legitimise collecting and using …
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