XpertHR launches GDPR legal guide for HR staff

Adam Saville
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A new practical guide aimed at helping HR staff to process employee data under new GDPR rules has been launched by XpertHR.

With the onset of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just four months away, legal online compliance source XpertHR has launched a guide to help HR professionals navigate changes to employee consent and data protection laws. GDPR will make it much harder for employers to gain access to individual staff data and seeing that the new regulation will focus on clear imbalances of power between the data subject and data controller, it's expected firms will have to revise their methods.   The guide will advise on five areas: the three grounds for processing data most relevant to the em...

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