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Continue readingThe European Union’s GDPR goes live on 25th May 2018 and in short means that all countries within the EU will need to be compliant with the strict new rules around protecting customer data. The intent is to provide protection for citizens and their confidential information; anything that identifies you privately and /or you wish to have protection over it.
GDPR will change the way companies and business approach data, mostly because of the short timelines put in place and not the rules, as it is simply restating the three basic set of rules relating to personal data which are as follows:
Simply put the only real difference to a business and how they hold data is increased protection of individual’s rights, as well as greater accountability for business and how they therefore manage an individual’s personal data.
Human Resources teams and departments have the biggest part to play as they deal with personal data daily and also the employee throughout their entire employment journey. If you are an HR professional you and/or your wider team will need to ensure the safe, secure and compliant processing of personal data for your businesses workforce. Simply put, in order to ensure compliant GDPR you should follow these 6 steps in the run up to the closing date:
Human Resources teams will need to (if you haven’t already) thoroughly review how you manage employee data and data requests. The costs of not getting your business up to the GDPR regulations by the 25th May 2018 could be devastating. For serious offences, for example, not meeting the basic principles of processing or not gaining consent could cost your business €20 million. It could also affect your business in other ways other than financially, such us impacting employee trust in the company and therefore losing out on employee retention and engagement.
The very nature of a Human Resources team and HR as a profession is to not only to be the gatekeeper for data management but also to manage employee expectations. Data is captured throughout an employee’s entire lifecycle with the business starting with the initial job search, right through to when they leave an organisation. All of this data now needs to be compliant with GDPR and if it is not it will be detrimental to a business.
Blog written by: Amy Noon, HR Recruitment Consultant at Williams Kent Ltd
22nd May 2018
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