2017

After a more than 30-year journey, Turkey has managed to put into force its data protection act, which was engaged with the Schengen-free regime conditions by European Union (EU).
 
Privacy is new to Turkey, where binding secondary laws regulating the telecommunication sector wasn 't enough to spread the privacy understanding to the other sectors.
 
It is important that data inventory, data flow life cycle and underlying logical and physical architectures are well defined. These can be implemented by clearly defining systems and applications, proper management of data classification and inventory, and overall management of the data life cycle.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be enforceable in the UK from May 2018, updating the way businesses must handle personal data, including what they hold on employees.

How is this going to affect HR professionals in the UK? HR magazine reports on the impacts, including how it's an update from previous legislation, why your firm may need a DPO (data protection officer) in your team, the penalties for non-compliance, how it will be applied after Brexit, and why employers should act now to prepare, versus waiting for the implementation in May 2018.

A second month of a rise in permanent placements in engineering, as well as temporary|contract staff billings in hotel and catering, among other categories, have indicated that UK employers have made it past the initial impact of Brexit.

According to the latest Markit|REC's "Report on Jobs" the rate of decline to fill permanent roles eased to the slowest in almost three years, while average salaries for permanent job placements rose in September, rising fastest in the Midlands.