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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
2 February 2017
The GDPR: What do employers need to be doing now?
The General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018. This might feel like a long time away on a cold winter’s morning, but ensuring your business is ready to comply by that date is unlikely to be a “quick fix”. The GDPR is complex and, as you will see from our blog series, broad ranging in its scope. In this blog, I’ve summarised what I believe will be the 8 key employment related issues for businesses as they ready themselves for the changes to the data protection regime, and the key immediate action points to consider.
26 January 2017
Entrepreneurs and small businesses need to prepare now for the new data protection regime
“We’re all going to have to change how we think about data protection”, the Information Commissioner noted at a lecture for the Institute of Chartered Accountants last week (full text here). Those that are familiar with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will know that she is absolutely right about this. Brexit is not going to “intervene” in that respect - the GDPR will have come into force before the UK leaves the EU. In any event, for those that want to do business in the EU (for example, by offering goods or services to individuals in the EU), they will need to comply.
17 January 2017
What employment law developments does 2017 have in store for HR professionals?
It’s 2017; you’ve now returned all of your unwanted presents, your Christmas tree is lying abandoned outside and you’ve decided on a date for your new diet and exercise regime to begin. So is there anything to look forward to in 2017: a year of Trump, various European elections and the impending threat of Brexit?
22 December 2016
Employees with temporary incapacity may be disabled
In the case of Daouidi v Bootes Plus SL and ors, the ECJ provided guidance on what constitutes a disability for the purposes of EU law in the context of an employee with temporary incapacity.
20 December 2016
“Fair” dismissal after failing to prove the right to work in the UK
I got dismissed from my job, even though I am allowed to live and work in the UK! Why?
This is exactly what happened in the recent case of Baker v Abellio London Ltd ET/2302684/2015. The employment tribunal held that an employer was allowed to fairly dismiss an employee who could not produce a document that confirmed he had the right to work in the UK, even though they accepted that he was legally resident here.
