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image: "how to run and effective meeting" by Nguyen Hung Vu  used under CC BY 2.0 The UK’s ICE regs (Information a nd consultation of Employees Regulations) give employees, subject to certain conditions, to request that their employer sets up, updates or changes arrangements to inform and consult them about issues within the organisation or business. Whilst appointing employee representatives and setting up an employee forum may appear onerous it actually offers significant benefit to the organisation, management and employees alike. IT CAN HELP IMPROVE: #Communication & Company Performance by ensuring clarity of understanding and removing uncertainly worry and rumour. #Decision Making and Management Performance because managers have better access to the views of those at the sharp end of the business, ie customer facing and operation employees that have to instigate and deliver organisational strategies. #Employee Performance and Commitment ; enga

According to today's press the #ICO are fining #Facebook £500,000 for breaching the data protection act.  This is the maximum fine allowed under the data protection legislation that was in place when the breach occurred.   Kyle Taylor, director of campaigning group Fair Vote UK is reported as saying  "Under  new GDPR laws,   the ICO could fine Facebook £479m"  The ICO has fined 54 organisations so far this year.  Looking at these fines in more detail many relate to failings in common business activities that may have been prevented with better staff training and awareness on the importance of privacy and data protection.  For example: inappropriate CCTV signage - £2000 multiple addresses in the email "to" field - £80000 data breach due to weak passwords - £100000 sensitive data left insecure - £35000 secondary web site left insecure - £120000  lost unencrypted DVDs that contained sensitive information - £325000 Inappropriate information relea

Despite the Modern Slavery act being introduced  in 2015 many people struggle with the idea that slavery is present in the UK.   It is estimated that many tens of thousands of people are in modern slavery in the UK today.  Most #slaves are trafficked to the UK from overseas into forced labour in #agriculture, #construction, #hospitality, #catering, #manufacturing and car washes.  Additionally many women and girls are forced into the sex trade. It is also thought that there is also a significant number of British nationals in #slavery.  some of the possible signs of modern slavery could include people who: have their movements restricted or who always accompanied are collected or dropped off to work at very unusual times look injured and malnourished frequently show signs of bruising and/or injuries often appearing malnourished and ill. appear to lack important belongings such passports, ID and address information wear the same clothes every day especially if their c

Despite the inroads made #bullying and #harassment remains an all too familiar occurrence in too many businesses and organisations.  Even the best policies and procedures are only effective when managers and staff understand and follow them.  It is extremely common for bullying and harassment to go unreported for fear of reprisal and further harassment; all too often those being bullying are forced to leave the business. This short term and ongoing churn and wastage is a costly expensive and one that is best addresses by a pro-active approach to reducing bullying, one that includes annual training for all managers on what  bullying and harassment looks like, what is acceptable behaviour and what is not.  This training should also include advice on how best to handling upward bullying from staff. Our one-day workshop on combatting bullying and harassment covers all of this and more

#GDRP Privacy Impact Assessments are a highly effective way to ensure privacy is embedded into all policies, practice, projects and activities. Our one day workshop show you how to implement #PIA with the minimum of burden read more about the course at https://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/privacy-impact-assessments

The #PECR, updated in 2018 sits along side the #GDPR and imposes strict rules on electronic marketing ie: phone, email, sms, fax as well as tough rules on the use of web site cookies, and those providing public access to telephone and internet services. The PECR extends the GDPR and applies even if no personal data is being processed. For those organisations that have websites, use any form of electronic marketing or run a communications network it is important that the rules and understood. Concrew Trainings one-day workshops on data protection are designed to provide this essential refresher training GDPR TRAINING PECR TRAINING PIA TRAINING

With the #GDPR legislation going live this week, we have updated our one day GDPR workshop to reflect the very latest developments.