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Article: The Directors[acute accent] Remuneration Report Regulations 2002.(Employment Practices Data Protection Code, Data Protection Act 1998)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- December 12, 2002
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Employee records - when it's time to let go
Two instalments of the much delayed "Employment Practices Data Protection Code" (the "Code") have now been made available in "pre-publication" form on the Information Commissioner's website (they will be formally published and "in force" once Parts 3 and 4 are finalised), both touching on record-handling. Although not legally binding, the Code will set out the Commissioner's view of what employers need to do to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "DPA"). Employers have tended either to retain all records until they run out of space or discard them almost immediately. Few sift through the information held ...