Employment law guide

Accessible and constantly updated guidance on employment law, tailored to the needs of the HR professional.

This tool:

  • Covers the entire employment lifecycle from recruitment and selection through to termination of employment.
  • Provides links to additional resources on each subject.
  • Alerts readers to forthcoming changes.

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Topical guides

Access our full list of Employment law guides here.

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  • Data protection: remedies and penalties

    This guide focuses on the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO's) powers to carry out investigations and issues fines for data breaches. The guide also looks at the nature of offences related to data breaches and who is liable when data breaches occur, including an employer's potential vicarious liability for the actions of staff.

  • Data protection: data subject rights

    This guide covers a data subject's right to make a subject access request; right to rectification of data; right to be forgotten; and right to restriction of processing. The guide also covers rights around data portability and automated decision-making and profiling.

  • Data protection: privacy impact assessments

    This guide highlights the obligation on data controllers to carry out a data privacy impact assessment for any "high risk" types of processing.

  • Data protection: data protection officers

    This guide sets out when an organisation is required to appoint a data protection officer and what the roles and responsibilities of a data protection officer are.

  • Data protection: transferring personal data in and out of UK

    This guide highlights any special considerations that apply when organisations are transferring personal data in and out of the UK.

  • Data protection: handling personal data breaches

    This guide runs through what an employer as the data controller must do in the event of an actual or suspected data breach.

  • Data protection: privacy notices

    This guide sets out the requirement for data controllers to provide data subjects with a privacy notice explaining what data they hold on them and what they do with that data.

  • Data protection: special categories of personal data

    This guide reveals what counts as special category personal data; when special category personal data can be processed; and what additional measures are in place, including the requirement to have a policy document in place to process that type of data.

  • Data protection: data controllers' obligations

    This guide describes a data controller and their responsibility for UK GDPR compliance, including the difference between a data controller and a data processor.

  • Data protection: legal grounds for processing personal data

    This guide outlines the six lawful grounds for processing data under the UK GDPR and how they apply in the employment context.

Employment law guides: The complete list

Our employment law guides provide analysis and guidance from expert authors on a broad range of topics for the HR professional. See a full list of all the guides here.

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