While planning your return to workplace strategy, ask yourself: do your current data protection policies and processes cover your new COVID-19 prevention and control measures? On 9 May 2020, the ‘Return to Work Safely Protocol’ (Protocol) was published by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (DBEI) and the Department of Health to provide a framework of measures that employers and workers must follow to manage and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace
Social distancing has meant that contracts and other documents that might have been signed by hand are now having to be executed and exchanged electronically
The time periods mandated by the GDPR continue to apply despite the significant strain COVID-19 has placed on organisations’ capacity to handle them
As you keep your staff safe during an emergency, take care to ensure that regulatory aspects of your reaction are considered
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