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Published: 10 May 2022 Emailed: 11 May 2022
The Harbours (Seafarers’ Remuneration) Bill has been announced in the Queen’s Speech, given by Prince Charles on 10 May 2022. The bill seeks to protect seafarers by ensuring they receive minimum wage while in UK waters and empowering ports to refuse ferry services who do not pay equivalent to the UK National Minimum Wage. Cited in the Queens Speech document is the widely publicised incident with P&O ferries, which saw 786 seafarers terminated. The bill well close legislative gaps that allowed this to happen and tod deter other companies from repeating the process. A consultation has been released asking for opinions on the scope and extent the legislation should be applied. It is a joint undertaking from the Department for Transport, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, HM Revenue and Customs and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The consultation closed on 7 June 2022.
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Data Reform Bill to shake up GDPR Published: 16 May 2022 Emailed: 18 May 2022
On 10 May 2022, Prince Charles gave the Queen’s Speech, providing insights into the plans of the current U K government and the bills they plan to enact. One such bill this year, the Data Reform Bill, seeks to replace the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Details released after the speech state that the current ‘ UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018 ’ is “ highly complex and prescriptive pieces of legislation ”. The aim of the new bill would be to allow a more flexible approach, focusing on outcomes such as data protection rather than ‘tick box’ exercises. For many payroll professionals, GDPR is something that is not ingrained into the day-to-day processes and operations of businesses. Creating new data protection regulations will have a large impact on how businesses across the UK operate.
There is also substantial risk here, once agreed the new regulations will still need to fulfil standards set by the European Union (EU) on data protection. If they do not, then the UK risks having its adequacy agreement revoked.
The government has yet to respond to the consultation “data: a new direction” which closed on 19 November 2021. The consultation sought views on how a new data protection regime could support the economy, maintain high standards and innovate businesses of all sizes across the UK.
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Impact of the data reform bill on payroll professionals Published: 21 June 2022 Emailed: 22 June 2022
One of the bills announced in the queen's speech last month was the data reform bill. After having left the European Union, the government wants to take a new approach to data protection and data sharing regulations.
All payroll departments directly deal with personal and sensitive information and data protection is a crucial part of payroll professionals' responsibilities. Naturally, if the framework of data protection regulations changes, the way payroll professionals use, share or store data may be affected. One of the upcoming changes is the modernising of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This is the executive, non-departmental government body which upholds data rights and promotes data privacy and openness by public bodies. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that the ICO will have a chair, chief executive and board. This is expected to bring ease to the decision making process and will allow the ICO's responsibilities to be broadened. New statutory codes and guidance will be introduced by ICO as reform begins.
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