Employee use of information and communication technology

New and updated

• Ryanair sacks stranded cabin crew for 'breach of trust'

  Date:

  8 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Six Ryanair cabin crew were dismissed by the airline this week for "breach of trust" after a photograph was circulated on social media showing the employees apparently asleep on the floor at an airport crew room.

• Morrisons data breach: Could the supermarket have done more?

  Date:

  25 October 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  This week's Court of Appeal decision that Morrisons was vicariously liable for a serious data breach by a disgruntled employee has got employers worried.

• How to deal with an employee who has posted negative comments about the organisation on a social networking site

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to refer to Richard v British Broadcasting Corporation, which dealt with damages for reputational harm in privacy cases.

• What are Glassdoor's reviews really telling us?

  Date:

  20 September 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Glassdoor's employer reviews pose a challenge to organisations: use the forum as an opportunity for more engagement and increase transparency, or rely on traditional, more controlled ways of communicating with prospective candidates. Does it foster a more open culture or just another opportunity to offload on social media? Adam McCulloch reports.

• Sainsbury's employee dismissed for Facebook post wins case

  Date:

  22 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  A former Sainsbury's employee was unfairly dismissed after an investigation into whether he had committed an act of gross misconduct was not approached with an open mind, an employment tribunal has found.

• Policy on mobile telephone use

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, including a new section to explain how personal data will be handled during monitoring of mobile telephone use.

• Policy on making personal telephone calls

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, including a new section to explain how personal data will be handled when monitoring the making of personal calls on work telephones.

• Email and internet policy for employees

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, including a new section to explain how personal data will be handled during monitoring of email and internet use.

• Policy on hand-held or portable electronic devices

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, including a new section to explain how personal data will be handled when monitoring the workforce's use of the organisation's hand-held or portable electronic devices.

• Policy on the use of personal devices for work/bringing your own device to work

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to set out: the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation; the strict limits on what data should be held on personal devices; to whom data breaches should be reported; and how personal data will be handled when monitoring use of personal devices for work.