General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): HR compliance issues

Social media is flooded with articles about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), lots of statistics and conflicting information but very little in terms of cold hard facts. With the regulations less than 12 months away, Julie Lock, service development director at MHR looks at what GDPR is and what organisations should be doing from a HR perspective to ensure compliance

For those organisations who are not planning to become GDPR ready and for those who had started GDPR readiness then stopped when the Brexit results were announced let us de-bunk the myth that because we are exiting the EU we do not need to be GDPR compliant because we do.

The Queen referred to GDPR in her speech on 21 June 2017 stating: ‘To implement the General Data Protection Regulation and the new Directive which applies to law enforcement data processing, meeting our obligations while we remain an EU member state and helping to put the UK in the best position to maintain our ability to share data with other EU member states and internationally after we leave the EU.’

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