How Can We Help Staff Adhere To Data Protection Principles When Working From Home?
Published on: 07/04/2020
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Johanna Cunningham Senior Associate, Lewis Silkin (NI) LLP
Johanna Cunningham Senior Associate, Lewis Silkin (NI) LLP
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Since qualifying in 2018, Johanna has supported clients with disciplinary and grievance issues, defending employment tribunal claims, senior exits, redundancies, TUPE, and day-to-day HR queries. She also has a strong interest in the overlap between employment law and data protection, regularly advising on subject access requests, data breaches, employee monitoring, and matters involving cross-border workers.

How Can We Help Staff Adhere To Data Protection Principles When Working From Home?

The European Data Protection Board and ICO have acknowledged that we are in an unprecedented and difficult situation meaning that normal working practices had to be modified very quickly. Despite this, organisations should ensure that security measures are in place for home-working, similar to those that would ordinarily be in place.

For example, employers may wish to ensure that staff:

  • are familiar with data protection policies and procedures;
  • have up-to-date anti-virus software;
  • understand that they need to lock their devices when they are away from their work station;
  • have access to IT support (where possible);
  • know the process for reporting any data protection concerns (e.g.

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 07/04/2020