With the GDPR deadline just four months away, are you prepared? To help get your HR and payroll department ready for when the regulation takes effect on 25th May, we’ve put together a checklist of essential steps to compliance.
 

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) due to take effect in less than four months’ time, it’s essential that HR managers understand exactly what the regulation entails.

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline just four months away, is your organisation prepared? To help get your HR and payroll department ready for when the regulation takes effect on 25th May, we’ve put together a checklist that includes the essential steps to compliance.

This blog will explore getting to grips with employee rights; making an inventory of data; and rethinking data retention.

With GDPR on the horizon, are your HR and Payroll departments prepared? With large fines and serious damage to your business’ reputation at stake for non-compliance, here’s how you can become GDPR compliant in five practical steps:

Technological advancements are helping to turn a vision of digitally accessible, automated payroll processes into reality. Here’s five predictions for the future of payroll:

A recent survey carried out by SD Worx revealed that out of 4,000 European employees surveyed, 44% had been paid late by their employers and 48% of those that had been paid late had also been paid incorrectly. The research exposes several risks for businesses associated with not paying their employees correctly: let’s explore the top three.

After a year and a half of negotiations, on 13 November 2018 British Prime Minster May and the European Union reached a technical agreement on the UK leaving the European Union. The deal sets out the general terms on how the United Kingdom and the European Member states will cooperate after the UK has left the EU. The impact for you as an employer with employees inside or from the UK is now also clear. What you should know.  

Businesses in every industry have been affected by the way that we now rely heavily on technology. Technology is now a part of everything we do – both at home and work—and in order to stay relevant in today’s world, all industries must continue to be innovative and remain up to date with technological advancements, especially in the workplace.

Exactly who should be responsible for data protection within an organisation?  Should it be a matter for C-level staff only? Or the IT department? The sales and marketing department collecting customer information? Or is it time to appoint a dedicated Data Protection Officer?

Despite many HR and payroll providers now using big data as part of their services, the industry has predominately been slow on the data uptake, in comparison to adoption within others. HR and payroll is largely an industry that relies on human intuition.

If someone was to ask you how much your payroll operations cost, would you know the answer? It seems like a straightforward question, yet the answer for many HR professionals is often hard to pinpoint. Understanding – and therefore being able to make future projections – about how much your payroll costs requires a clear appreciation of various business components.

Having joined the GDPR bootcamp for Marketers in Reading on the 15th of September, I wanted to share what I have learned during this full on (but very enlightening) day in an easy to digest blog: