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1. Gender Pay Gap Reporting – if you employ more than 250 staff, it is time to finalise your first gender pay gap report, upload the results to the Government’s reporting website and publish the information on your website. 2. Changes to the Rules on Taxation of Termination Payments – make sure that all payments in lieu of notice are treated as subject to both tax and NIC. 3. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – read up on the new recommendations by The Equalities & Human Rights Commission, including approved safeguards to have in place and also remember that men can be victims too. 4. The National Living Wage and Apprentice Rates have Increased – ensure that your workers and apprentices are being paid at least the national minimum wage and keep adequate records so that you can demonstrate compliance. 5. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – finalise preparations for the new rules: only keep relevant, up-to-date information, revisit your privacy notice an...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come info force on 25 th  May 2018 – by which time your organisation needs to be compliant with the new rules in respect of personal data and to have a framework in place which clearly demonstrates this. As of May 2018, any data of individuals should be completely secure and your systems should support privacy by default. Failure to comply with the rules, which results in a serious data protection failing, could end in punishment by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by means of a stiff administrative fine. In addition to the above fine, organisations must take into consideration the other very real negative impacts involved if a cyber attack occurs. If you lose the personal data of your clients through a preventable breach, you will be liable for compensation to the victims, and the accompanying bad publicity will no doubt result in a significant loss of customers and drop in sales. So how might the...