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Irish Data Protection Commission Guidance on Subject Access Requests – Takeaways for Employers
07 September 2023In this second article in our two-part series, Linda Hynes, partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward team of Lewis Silkin Ireland, looks at the recent guidance issued by the Irish Data Protection Commission (‘DPC’) on managing subject access requests and considers the key takeaways for employers when dealing with such requests.
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Key takeaways for employers from recent DPC guidance on SARs – Linda Hynes comments for PDP
02 November 2023Linda Hynes looks at the recent guidance issued by the DPC on managing subject access requests and considers the key takeaways for employers when dealing with such requests.
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Commitment and Collaboration - key takeaways from the Smart Building Show 2023
07 November 2023Smart tech and smart buildings are now becoming a priority for business leaders and owners, but the current climate challenges require commitment and collaboration. At the recent Smart Buildings show we learnt more on how smart buildings are part of a solution to a complex problem:
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JLL Green Lease Report 2023 – Key Takeaways
22 March 2024JLL recently published their research on Green Leasing 2.0; bridging the owner-occupier divide to deliver shared ESG value.
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Roundtable Mediation - Game of give and take
06 October 2016Karen Baxter has been featured in an article on the use of mediation for The Law Society Gazette.
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Employer must provide ‘adequate facility’ to take annual leave, says Advocate General
14 June 2017An Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has given his opinion that employers must provide an “adequate facility” for workers to exercise the right to paid annual leave under the EU Working Time Directive (“WTD”). On termination of employment, the employer must pay in lieu of untaken leave for the period during which the worker did not have such a facility to take it.
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I am a Partner in the Corporate, Commercial and Partnerships Legal Practice Groups having joined Lewis Silkin LLP in 2010.
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Data Breaches: Dealing with The Long Tail
01 March 2023As the immediate flurry of activity (and panic?) in the initial hours and days of a data breach subsides, attentions will turn to the longer-term impact: what of regulatory investigations and action, rights requests and compensation claims by affected data subjects?
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Subject Access Request: Strategy, Tactics and Risks
17 October 2019We are pleased to invite you or your Dublin based colleagues to our breakfast workshop for data protection officers, legal counsel and anyone else who touches subject access requests.
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Employees could be caught by aggressive recruitment tactics: Roberta Pasemko and David Samuels comment for Executive Grapevine
20 July 2020While some businesses have announced mass redundancies and furloughed high numbers of staff, other employers have started to use this uncertain period as a time to pounce on top talent.
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Cash ‘gifts’ and strong-arm tactics: music’s problem with NFTs: Cliff Fluet comments for The Guardian
07 April 2021Blockchain technology makes non-fungible tokens unique, but uncertainty surrounds how the rights and ownership of songwriters, producers and session musicians apply in sales.
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Tackling the gender pay gap - the European perspective
09 November 2018Whilst no one can have failed to notice the focus on gender pay gap reporting in the UK in the past year or so, in this discussion forum we will look more widely at how issues of gender pay are being tackled across Europe.
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Lewis Silkin and Full Fact present: Tackling misinformation in an open society
07 July 2022Did you hear about the drinks firm that spent years explaining that it doesn’t sponsor blood sports? Or the bank whose share price was hit by online rumours?
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All hands on deck as creative industries and search engines tackle online piracy (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 5)
23 June 2017The UK Government, through the UKIPO, Ofcom and DMCS, has helped broker an agreement between Google, Bing, the BPI and Motion Picture Association over a new voluntary code of practice.
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Hong Kong government tables bill to abolish Mandatory Provident Fund offsetting mechanism to the Legislative Council
07 March 2022There is finally visibility on how the government proposes to sunset the controversial Mandatory Provident Fund (“MPF”) offsetting mechanism as the long-awaited Employment and Retirement Schemes Legislation (Offsetting Arrangement) (Amendment) Bill (“Bill”) was tabled to the Legislative Council on 23 February 2022. The government hopes that the law will be finalised within the current government office term and expects the mechanism to be abolished by 2025. This article provides a summary of the key changes and some key takeaways for employers.
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Don’t blink: The Immigration Rules are changing again
17 March 2017The Home Office published the latest Statement of Changes in the Immigration Rules yesterday, 16 March 2017. The changes take effect on 6 April 2017. We summarise here the changes that will affect you most.
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Size doesn’t matter (so says the ICO about recipients of big fines for data breaches)
03 July 2017If you thought that you’re too small a business to have to bother about data protection, then think again.
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It’s not just about Getting(G) Data(D) Protection(P) Ready(R): some digital businesses and infrastructure providers shouldn’t forget to be ‘NIS’
11 July 2017May 2018 is a month which will already be highlighted in the calendars of those responsible for their organisations’ compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s now under a year away. But for some digital businesses and infrastructure providers, when it comes to security risk management and reporting obligations, the GDPR isn’t the whole story.
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A Deed of Retirement doesn’t always protect a retiring partner
09 June 2020It’s not unreasonable to think that if a partner retires from a limited liability partnership (“LLP”) under the terms of a Deed of Retirement which contains a waiver and release clause, that partner will not be subjected to claims for any liabilities to the LLP.
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Posting employees to the EU, EEA or Switzerland? Don’t forget the social security position
15 February 2021In a welcome move last week, the EU notified the UK that all EU countries will apply the “detached workers” exception to UK employees who are temporarily seconded to work in the EU. Similarly the UK will apply the detached workers exception for EU employees who are temporarily seconded to work in the UK. This article reviews the latest position.