Monitoring staff, IT and communications systems in the workplace

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Monitoring staff, IT and communications systems in the workplace

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published by a LexisNexis Employment expert

Practice notes
In-house
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FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published draft guidance on keeping employment records and recruitment and selection which was open for consultation until 5 March 2024, and has also removed the employment practices code (first published in March 2002, and last updated in November 2011) and supplementary guidance from its employment information page. For more information, see Q&A: What is the status of the ICO employment practices code? and ICO removes employment practices code and related guidance from its Employment information guidance page, LNB News 15/12/2023 112. This Practice Note will be updated once the ICO draft guidance is finalised.

This material considers Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), and legislative links are to Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679, UK GDPR, except where expressly stated otherwise.

For a more detailed introduction to UK GDPR generally, see Practice Notes: The UK GDPR and DPA 2018: key data protection issues for employment lawyers and The UK General

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