10 Top GDPR Questions & Answers for Employment Advisers

Introduction

Employee data is everywhere - in emails, WhatsApp messages, performance notes and recruitment files. Sooner or later, someone asks the question that stops you in your tracks:

‘Can we actually do that under GDPR?’

This practical session tackles the 10 most common and most confusing GDPR questions in employment.

By attending this session, you will be able to provide clear, confident answers that make sense in the real world. The session also provides practical tips you need to handle staff data safely, lawfully, and efficiently.

What You Will Learn

• What counts as personal data?
• The surprising types of information that fall under GDPR
• Lawful bases for processing
• Why ‘consent’ is rarely right and what lawful basis works better
• Subject access requests (DSARs)
• How to handle complex or sensitive requests without oversharing
• Retention and deletion
• How long you can keep HR records and what to do when time’s up
• Monitoring and surveillance
• Managing CCTV, email checks, and remote work tools lawfully
• Special category data
• Handling health, diversity, and disciplinary information correctly
• Recruitment and references
• Ensuring transparency and fairness from application to onboarding
• Data breaches
• How to react fast and decide if you need to notify the ICO
• International data transfers
• Staying compliant when HR systems or suppliers sit outside the UK
• Proving compliance
• The documentation, policies and training that keep you covered

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.