GDPR & Data Protection within Employment Law

GDPR & Data Protection

Data protection in recent years has become of paramount importance. With high profile breaches within organisations being very costly, the need to stay on the right side of best practice and policy of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a necessity.

As an employer, if you store or process your employees’ personal data, then you need to make sure you are meeting your responsibilities and are compliant in regards to GDPR. Failing to comply, your organisation could be liable for penalties of up to 4% of turnover or €20 million.

It is not always viable to have an expert to cover every aspect of your business, although with something as important is GDPR, you must follow procedure and go by the book.

At PJH Law, we have expert knowledge and experience dealing with GDPR issues and providing compliance advice to a variety of businesses large and small. If you require any further information regarding GDPR, our expert employment law solicitors and HR advisers can assist

For additional support, please call our employment solicitors and expert leagl team on 01780 757 589, request a callback or complete our quick online enquiry form.

Our Experts

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How Our Experts can Help You

GDPR can affect your company’s contracts, policies and systems, and GDPR laws focus upon ensuring you have a permitted basis for holding and using individuals’ data, and that it’s kept secure at all times.

PJH Law’s expert lawyers can ensure that your company is protected & compliant with the employment data protection laws surrounding employee’s data.

Our data protection experts can help you tackle these new regulations by advising on:

Contract reviews
Assisting with updates to GDPR
Advising on data protection and privacy policies
Best practice data and information management
What to do if there is a breach

Employees are entitled to review the data you hold about them by requesting in writing.

An employee may make such a request during a dispute or Employment Tribunal claim. Sometimes the application precedes notice of a complaint and at these times we can help ensure you respond to the request correctly, on time and ensure the individual is only provided with the information they are entitled to.

For further advice, please our employment solicitors and expert legal team on 01780 757 589, request a callback or complete our quick online enquiry form.