Data Protection, Privacy and Employment

This presentation will cover four main areas where data protection and privacy is relevant in an employment context:

1. Employee data and an employer’s obligations
2. Surveillance
3. Liability and rogue employees
4. Breach of confidence

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Learning objectives:

• An overview of the obligations on employers in the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018;
• Employee rights in relation to data protection and privacy
• Employee surveillance and recent case law
• Employer liability for rogue employees in data breaches (evaluating the case of WM Morrison Supermarket Plc)
• A summary of the relevance of breach of confidence in an employment context