As an employer, you have responsibilities to ensure your employees' personal details are respected and properly protected.
Our quick guide to the Employment Practices Code is ideal for small businesses and provides all the information you'll need to keep on the right side of the law and covers the following areas:
- What the Data Protection Act means to an employer
- Recruitment and selection
- Employment records
- Monitoring at work
- Information about workers' health
- What rights do workers have?
We also publish the Employment Practices Code and the Employment Practices Code: Supplementary Guidance These documents cover the code in great detail, and provide answers to all the main questions you're likely to ask.
You can also open these as PDF documents from our Codes of Practice page.