CCTV & employee monitoring Law - Workplace Law Network

New CCTV Code of Practice
The Information Commissioner's Office has recently issued a revised code of good practice aimed at helping CCTV operators to strike that vital balance between the individual's right to privacy and ... | briefing | 19 Mar 2008 11:59AM

Facing up to Facebook in the Workplace
With a reported one million registered "Facebookers" in the City alone, employers are facing a real blurring of the lines between their employees' business and social lives. Facebook, Myspace and B... | briefing | 13 Sep 2007 1:48PM

Commission guidance on Data Protection rights
Premises managers responsible for CCTV or computer systems may be pleased to know that the European Commission has recently published a guide entitled 'Data Protection in the European Union' aimed ... | briefing | 5 Jun 2001 2:45PM

Data Protection Code Part III: Monitoring at Work
The Information Commissioner is expected to publish Part III of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code - Monitoring at Work - by the end of May 2003. The Code explains how your organisation ... | briefing | 13 May 2003 3:23PM

Data Protection Act
The Data Protection Act 1998, came into force on 1 March 2000 and actually replaced earlier legislation previously contained in the 1984 Act.  Its origins actually come from the European Data ... | briefing | 15 Mar 2001 3:12PM

Company fined £4500 after employee falls from ladder
The HSE has prosecuted a Stourbridge glazing company after an employee fell from a damaged ladder while replacing windows in a leisure centre. Jaysee Glass and Glazing Ltd of Lye, Stourbridge was f... | case | 26 Nov 2007 9:03AM

Employee found not to be ill after anonymous tip off
One of the more difficult aspects of managing employees is the management of those on long-term sickness absence. Most employers wish to support employees in such circumstances whilst ensuring that... | case | 5 Oct 2007 4:44PM

CCTV catches supermarket manager practising
A trainee supermarket manager stole nearly £50,000 from the store he worked in, but was unaware that he had been caught on CCTV practising the break-in, reports the Daily Record. James Ha... | case | 7 Jun 2005 12:00AM

Council criticised after hiring private detectives to follow a sick employee
Swansea Council has been criticised for a "cruel and deliberate attack" on one of its own workers in a row over a sickness dispute. Malcolm Honey, who worked as a legal executive, broug... | case | 30 Aug 2007 12:00AM

Is a policy regarding personal relationships in the workplace appropriate?
When couples or family members are in a reporting relationship issues can arise regarding favouritism, or the appearance of favouritism, which can be damaging to the working environment. Some w... | case | 25 Jun 2007 12:00AM

The Big Brother Effect
1 August 2002 © Workplacelaw Network Quick link – http://www.workplacelaw.net Welcome to your weekly members' bulletin. This bulletin is available in both plain text and html formats. If ... | ebulletin | 1 Aug 2002 7:31PM

Workplace Law Network Members' ebulletin no.215
Workplace Law Group email Workplace Law Members' e-bulletin no. 215 25 January 2006 © Workplace Law Network 2006 http://www.workplac... | ebulletin | 25 Jan 2006 6:01PM

Workplace Law Network Members' ebulletin no. 165
[subject - Members E-bulletin 165, 26 January 2005] 26 January 2005 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 165 of your... | ebulletin | 26 Jan 2005 4:35PM

Workplace Law launches new CIPD professional training courses
Workplace Law Training has launched two new CIPD courses for HR and Personnel professionals. These new qualifications add to Workplace Law’s portfolio of accredited training courses and offer... | network news | 18 Jan 2007 12:00AM

Workplace Law Magazine: Park Life
This feature article first appeared in issue 18 of Workplace Law Magazine (June 2006). More information on Workplace Law Magazine can be found at http://www.workplacelaw.net/magazine/ Park Life ... | network news | 12 Jul 2006 12:00AM

Workplace Law Magazine: Licence to…protect your workplace?
This feature article first appeared in issue 18 of Workplace Law Magazine (June 2006). More information on Workplace Law Magazine can be found at http://www.workplacelaw.net/magazine/ Licence... | network news | 7 Jul 2006 12:00AM

Spring 2005 Employment Law Update Special Report now available
Workplace Law Publishing has launched the brand-new Employment Law Update: Special Report, Spring 2005 Edition which provides comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative guidance to new and forthco... | network news | 17 May 2005 12:00AM

Are Training Courses Costing You Too Much Money?
Workplace Law Training can work with you to cut the cost of training and save the time your people spend away from the workplace. How? Simply by putting courses together specifically tailored to... | network news | 2 Apr 2004 10:11AM

CCTV shouldn't record conversations, warns ICO
Organisations should only use CCTV cameras which record conversations in highly exceptional circumstances, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned.A new CCTV code of practice d... | news | 29 Jan 2008 12:01PM

Employee profiling software - Big Brother?
Emails sent in work time could soon be scanned by employers, to find out whether staff are applying for other jobs, or simply spending too much time on non-work activities, according to the Daily M... | news | 5 Dec 2007 8:02AM

Be aware of employee fraud
With the recent loss of millions of bank details and personal data by HMRC, concerns about fraud are currently in the spotlight.The loss of the child benefit details appears to be down to... | news | 4 Dec 2007 7:34AM

UK workers take extra day to “recover” from holiday
More than a quarter of UK employees take at least one extra day off work to get over their holiday, according to research. The survey of 1,000 people by travelsupermarket.com found that 2... | news | 8 Oct 2007 5:11PM

Council staff in four week wait to get back to work
Dumfries and Galloway Council staff are waiting up to a month before they can return to work because of the length of time being taken by external Occupational Health Assessments.The situ... | news | 28 Sep 2007 1:28PM

Cashier sentenced over card con
A supermarket checkout worker who memorised a customer's PIN before spending hundreds of pounds on her card has been jailed for 12 months. While working at a Tesco store in Cardiff, Kharul Hoque, p... | what the papers say | 24 Sep 2007 4:02PM

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