Managing employees/workers
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.
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.
This guide describes a data controller and their responsibility for UK GDPR compliance, including the difference between a data controller and a data processor.
Updated to reflect that extended rights to parental bereavement leave and pay are due to take effect in Northern Ireland on 6 April 2026.
Updated to reflect that the expected commencement date for the changes to eligibility for SSP is 6 April 2026.
Updated to reflect the removal of the qualifying period for statutory paternity leave from 6 April 2026, and transitional notice requirements.
Updated to reflect that Bereaved partner's paternity leave will come into effect from 6 April 2026.
Updated to reflect that enhanced redundancy protections will apply for employees taking, or returning, from bereaved partner's paternity leave.
Updated to include the weekly rate of statutory maternity pay effective from 6 April 2026.
The Bereaved Partner's Paternity Leave Regulations 2026 provide an extended period of 52 weeks' statutory paternity leave for employees where the child's mother dies within the first year of the birth.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.