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Facebook at work
Facebook at work: David Woollcott examines the issues social networking sites pose for employers | audio | 22 Aug 2007 1:26PM

“It was an accident waiting to happen”: what to learn from the HMRC debacle
The news that the Government had lost personal data relating to 25m people may have come as a surprise to some; but not to Ed Wilding, Chief Technical Officer at Data Genetics International. Ed is ... | briefing | 28 Nov 2007 8:48AM

Awareness & Understanding of Data Protection
The 1998 Data Protection Act (“the Act”) places far reaching obligations on organisations that handle personal data. The Act effectively implements an EC Directive on data protection aimed at h... | briefing | 22 Oct 2001 4:25PM

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

Hatton Judgment on Stress: Guidelines for Employers
Important case for Employers involved in Workplace Stress Related ClaimsIn the recent case of Sutherland -v- Hatton ([2002]EWCA Civ 76, CA, 05/02/02) the Court of Appeal ruled that signs of stress ... | briefing | 12 Feb 2002 5:50PM

What is the Freedom of Information Act?
By January 2005, the Freedom of Information Acts for both Scotland and the UK will be fully implemented. Although mutually exclusive, both Acts create a general right to information held by a publ... | briefing | 12 Aug 2004 9:14AM

Database right infringed when staff took customer lists, rules court
Employees who left a company to start up a rival breached that firm's database rights when they took information with them, the High Court has ruled. The firm failed to prove, though, that the acti... | case | 8 Jan 2008 11:52AM

Nine second delay sinks unfair dismissal claim
A case of unfair dismissal was not heard by an Employment Tribunal because the application was received nine seconds too late. The late submission was made by a law student charging £120 per ... | case | 13 Nov 2007 11:22AM

Make Sure Email Policies are Communicated to Staff: Royal Bank of Scotland v. Goudie
One of the hot topics for employers over the last 12 months has been the implementation and effectiveness of e-mail and Internet policies. The recent case of Royal Bank of Scotland -v- Miss S J Gou... | case | 16 Apr 2004 12:00AM

Is an employee's contact list company property?
Standard in many contracts is a requirement for employees to return any company property once the employment relationship has terminated. It is also not unusual for employees to be subject to confi... | case | 2 Jul 2007 12:00AM

Employee wins compensation after being fired because of blog
In a judgement that could have ramifications in the UK an English secretary who says she was sacked because her Paris employer objected to her blog has been awarded £30,000 for unfair dismiss... | case | 29 Mar 2007 12:00AM

Workplace Law Network Members' ebulletin no. 188
Untitled Document Workplace Law Members' e-bulletin No. 188 6 July 2005 © Workplace Law Network 2005 http://www.workplacelaw.net ... | ebulletin | 6 Jul 2005 2:40PM

Workplace Law Network Members' ebulletin no. 185
Untitled Document Workplace Law Members' e-bulletin No. 185 15 June 2005 © Workplace Law Network 2005 http://www.workplacelaw.net ... | ebulletin | 15 Jun 2005 2:33PM

Facefacts: The real cost of social networking to your business
Heard of Facebook? You'd have to have left the planet not to, as employers and employers' groups have suddenly realised what it's costing their businesses! Surveys around the use of Facebook in wor... | Magazine issue | 16 Oct 2007 4:25PM

Facebook and the workplace [audio]
David Woollcott from Workplace Law spoke to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire today (22 August) to give an employers’ perspective on the use of social network site, Facebook, in the workplace. ... | network news | 22 Aug 2007 12:00AM

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

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

New Management Guidance on Display Screen Equipment
A new template policies on display screen equipment, which can be customised and implemented in your workplace, is now available from Workplace Law Publishing. The document is the latest to be rele... | network news | 19 May 2004 2:49PM

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

Remote workers "more likely to visit questionable websites"
Remote workers are much more likely to visit websites containing questionable content using company laptops, new research has found.Web security firm ScanSafe analysed data relating to web usage am... | news | 18 Apr 2008 11:03AM

Government data loss leads to crackdown on laptops
Central Government staff have been banned from removing unencrypted laptops containing personal data from their offices, following the theft of a Ministry of Defence Laptop containing the personal ... | news | 23 Jan 2008 2:44PM

Employee monitoring 'puts staff under increasing strain'
Employees are being put under increasing strain because of employers using surveillance equipment to keep track of how hard they are working, a survey has found.More than half of employees claim th... | news | 9 Jan 2008 2:50PM

Consultation on use of personal information launched
A consultation into how personal information is used and shared in the public and private sectors has been launched following the HMRC’s data loss incident.The consultation forms part of an i... | news | 14 Dec 2007 3:15PM

Chief execs 'in firing line' over data storage
Company chief executives are ignorant of rules about the storing of electronic information despite the fact that they will pay the penalty for failures to preserve information as evidence in disput... | news | 14 Dec 2007 11:44AM

IT and Email Policy and Management Guide, version 2.0
Technological advances in the field of information technology have resulted in many positive benefits for employers. However, the increase in technological advances has also brought with it many em... | Policy & Procedure |

Data Destruction: keeping it confidential
There are many issues surrounding data destruction and disposal. On the one hand, organisations need to ensure that information and data kept on paper and other media (such as magnetic disks and ta... | White paper | 16 Oct 2007 9:04AM

For Your Eyes Only: erasing sensitive computer data
In the haste to upgrade and enhance IT systems, businesses and other organisations often neglect their duties regarding the secure disposal of computer equipment. From a security and risk perspecti... | White paper | 12 Sep 2007 9:55AM

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