
1. The meaning of social media.
2. Social media in the employment world.
a. Duties of the Employee.
b. Duties of the Employer.
Social Media Use and Abuse
6. From recruitment to termination (including the GDPR and 2018 Act).
a. Social media in the recruitment process.
b. The use of social media at work.c. Harassment and other misuse.d. Surveillance of employees.e. Termination: Procedures, Unfair dismissal and other issues.f. Social Media Policies.
Information Rights and Employees
7. The right to privacy.
8. Data Protection.
a. How the DPA 2018 works and the changes in the GDPR
b. Personal data.
9. The rights and remedies of the employer and employee in relation to privacy.
10. Subject access requests and other related rights.
a. Access under the DPA 2018, the GDPR and other legislation.
b. The request.
c. The response.d. Exemptions, Objections and Disentitlements.
11. Confidential information and data.
12. Who owns the data:
a. The Database regulations.
b. Social media sites.
13. Protection of information: overt and covert surveillance.
14. Enforcement of proprietary rights: Injunctions and other remedies.
a. Injunctive relief: the general approach.
b. Injunctive relief: search and seizure orders.c. Websites, passwords and data: effective orders.d. The use of experts: imaging and other preservation orderse. Procedure in the Courts: e-disclosure, privilege.f. Damages, account of profits and Wrotham Park.
Other issues
15. The Information Commissioner, First Tier and Upper Tribunals and appeals.
PRECEDENTS
(1) The Contract of Employment.
(2) Policies and Procedures for Social Media and Data including:
b. the duties of employers and other bodies under the new law.
(3) Employer Surveillance Policy.
(4) A model Disciplinary Procedure.
(5) A model Grievance Procedure.
(6) A Subject Access request.
(7) Reply to a Subject Access Request and other documents.
(8) Restrictive covenants, social media and information
(9) A model injunction:
a. The Application
b. The witness statement
c. The Order
(11) E-disclosure Precedents.