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Employment Memo - Equality at work - Enforcement and remedies - Tribunal claim - Remedies - equal pay - Equal pay audit - 5775
Employers that are found to have committed an equal pay breach will be ordered to carry out an equal pay audit (reg 2 SI 2014/2559 ).Click here -
Employment Memo - Data protection - Data protection requirements - Accountability and governance - Audits - 6000
A data protection audit will typically assess the organisation's procedures, systems, records and activities in order to: - ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are in place; - verify that those policies and procedures are being followed; - test the adequacy of controls in place; - appoint a data protection officer or another with specific responsibility for data protection; - detect breaches or potential breaches of compliance; and - recommend any required changes in control, policy and procedure....Click here -
Employment Memo - Data protection - Data fees, breach reporting and enforcement - Enforcement and compensation - 6130
The ICO has a range of enforcement powers available to it including criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement and audit, and the ICO can (Part 6 DPA 2018 ): - serve information notices requiring organisations to provide the ICO with specified information within a certain time period; - issue undertakings committing an organisation to a particular course of action in order to improve its compliance; - serve enforcement notices and “stop now” orders where there has been a breach, requiring organisations...Click here -
Employment Memo - Monitoring, searches and privacy - Monitoring and surveillance - General standards - Impact assessments - 6166
Whether compulsory or voluntary, an impact assessment will involve: - identifying the purpose of the monitoring and its proposed benefit; - identifying any adverse impact. This includes the intrusion the monitoring would have on the workers' private lives, whether workers will be able to limit any intrusion, whether confidential or sensitive information will be seen by others (for example IT workers) and whether it will have any impact on the relationship with the employer or other bodies; - considering any...Click here -
Employment Memo - Training and performance - Evaluation, guidelines and benchmarking - Appraisals and performance management - Discrimination in the appraisal and promotion process - 6468
An employer must not discriminate, because of sex, race, disability, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, or age, against an employee in the appraisal process or in the way it affords an employee access to opportunities for promotion or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford them access to such opportunities. An appraisal can have a critical effect on an employee's career development, promotion prospects, pay rises, access...Click here -
Employment Memo - Trade unions, collective bargaining and industrial action - Trade unions - 7116
Unions register annually with the Certification Officer (CO) (¶7160) and the fact that an organisation is included in a list of unions, kept by the CO, is sufficient evidence that it is a union (s 2 TULRCA 1992 ). The annual 2018/19 report of the Certification Officer lists 142 unions and 90 employers' associations with a total of around 6.8 million members. Trade unions must also supply an annual membership audit certificate to the Certification Officer (Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and...Click here -
Employment Memo - Trade unions, collective bargaining and industrial action - Trade unions - Certification Officer - 7160
The Certification Officer is a government-appointed official who is responsible for the registration and legal regulation of unions. The main functions of the Certification Officer are to (ss 3, 6, 124, 258 TULRCA 1992 ): - maintain a list of unions and of employers' organisations and receive their annual returns; - certify whether a union is independent; - produce an annual report; and - ensure that the statutory requirements relating to accounting records, annual returns, auditors, the election of union...Click here
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