With that information, he proceeded to post that online, and he sent it to a number of newspapers so that they would report that this was capable of happening within Morrisons. And another advance of the employee exiting his position he had an unfortunately taken data including bank and salary details of nearly 100,000 staff at Morrisons. And that he was employed in a fairly senior position of Senior Internal Auditor.Īnd the circumstances had arisen where there was some disciplinary proceedings taken against the employee that was reported to do with legal haze.
This was based at around the Liverpool area in terms of Morrisons. But the background to it was that the employee was Andrew Skelton and he was 43. This was case that was relating to Morrisons supermarket. Could you explain how this came about? And does it mean all employers could be held liable to compensate employees and customers if an angry ex-employee decides to post personal data online? And that hardly seems fair on the company. The employer has been held liable for a data breach committed by a disgruntled employee. So Seamus, the question here is about a fairly well-reported case of Morrisons supermarket. We're going to start off today with data protection. Will employers be held vicariously liable if an angry ex-employee commits a data breach and decides to post personal data online? It may not read as well as a written article would. Please Note: This is a direct transcript of our recent webinar. You know who you are, and he will deal with that later on.
We're going to be dealing with holidays today from a client.
So I'll just point out, Seamus got a question about holiday pay. And send us some questions, listen in, use it as a kind of group CPD event if you like.īut today we're going to be looking at some questions that were sent in either live today or indeed previously to either me or to Seamus. So you can grab a cup of tea with your colleagues. We're moving from Wednesday at 12:00, and we're going to be on the first Friday of the month at 11:00 in the mornings. As of next year we're going to be changing time and day.
Scott: Welcome everybody to the fourth webinar of the series with O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors where we're dealing with questions from customers and clients about employment law issues, the "Any Questions?" webinar. Seamus McGranaghan O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors Issues covered: