A matter of records

Summary

To provide an up-to-date snapshot of employers' current policies and procedures on the use of personal data in employer-employee relationships, IRS and the leading employment law firm DLA jointly surveyed a panel of employers on the eve of the first anniversary of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) coming into force.

We questioned them about the extent to which practice in their organisations complies with the Act in several key areas, and about how far they make use of some of the "good-practice" procedures set out by the Data Protection Commissioner in the draft Code of Practice on the use of personal data in employer-employee relationships.