The Employment Relations: Impact of Blacklisting Employees and GDPR

The Employment Relations

Executive summary
Employee relations plays an essential role in the creating positive and effective workplace
environment in the organisation as well as motivating employees to accomplish desired goals
and objectives of the organisation. Effective employees relations also helps the organisation to
retain their employees for long period of time and motivating them to perform better. This report
helps in determining that effective employees relations helps in enhancing overall performance
of the organisation. This report helps in determining the impact of blacklisting employees on the
employees performance as well on overall performance of the organisation. Also this report
highlights that introduction of general data protection regulation will helps organisation to
modify their current data management practices. Additionally, this report also helps in
determining that the organisation will have to pay huge cost through mismanaging employee
data in the light of GDPR rules.

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................2
Justification of blacklisting employees with employee relations theories and concepts........2
Assess how the introduction of General Data Protection Regulation can be used to modify
present data management practices........................................................................................4
Discuss the cost firm can pay by mismanaging data of people in light of GDPR.................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
The employment relationship is defined as the process of maintaining and creating
effective and positive relationship with the employees of the organisation in order to satisfy their
needs and wants as well as retain them for long period of time in the organisation. Effective
employment relationship helps in accomplishing desired goals of the organisation (Brady, 2019)
(Sarinaand Riley,2018). Maintaining and developing positive employee relations allows the
organisation to create positive and effective workplace environment. Proper training and
motivation helps the organisation to build effective relations among employer and employees of
the organisation. For this report Consulting association is taken into consideration. The
consulting association is known as a controversial business in UK. The business was considered
to be involved in blacklisting employees. It was founded in 1993 in UK. This report highlights
the detailed analysis of employees relations, issues and various strategies that can be taken into
consideration to enhance employee relations. In addition to this how blacklisting employees
create huge impact on the employees freedom is also highlighted in this report. Also the general
data protection regulations introduction to modify the present data management practices is also
determined in this report. Furthermore, the cost organisation could pay through mismanaging
employees data in light of GDPR is also highlighted in this report.
Main Body
Justification of blacklisting employees with employee relations theories and concepts.
Employee relations involves organization's efforts to maintain and create a positive
relationship with employees through constructing positive employee relation and organization's
effort to keep the employees loyal and engaged in work. In context to Iceberg, the scenario of
blacklisting employees has devastating impact on employees. The Iceberg's worker had no idea
that their information or details were being checked. The company used Blacklisting as a secret
tool to keep away the employees they dont like, there were files which raised health and safety
concerns and it was further proved about blacklisting. Blacklisting scandal was the major issue in
the involvement of the security services. Blacklisting is the unlawful practice which involves
compiling information on employees on their trade union membership. It can potentially contains
details on individuals who have reported concerns. In context to Iceberg, a former manager has
given evidence to blacklists the union members. The various theories used in employee relation
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The Employment Relations

Executive Summary
This report discusses the various drawbacks of blacklisting the employees and the mental and
emotional trauma they will go through. It also discusses the controversial fact that blacklisting
should be considered illegal. To justify the ans various employee relation theories and concepts
are used. It also showcases the critical analysis and introduction of GDPR of the employees. It
also discusses the GDPR rules and the cost that could be paid by the firms if the employee data is
mismanaged.

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
This report shows the devastating effects on the employees through blacklisting. It shows
the idea of considering blacklisting unethical and illegal in the employment sector. To justify the
argument there are various employee relation theories and concept that can be used. It also gives
the hypothetical situation where one has hired as a consultant and have to critically discuss on
how to advise the company on based of GDPR and how to modify their data management
practice. Also introduced GDPR and bringing the light to the rules and cost that is associated
with mismanaging the employee data.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Let's first start by understanding what is black listing means. This term refers to banning
or stooping the employee from working in a specific firm or state on the basis of some
misconduct in past years or recently. It may be also because of some political reasons or some
safety or corruption issues. It can be traced back to 1774 where people are blacklisted if they
went on strike which might result in total loss of their livelihood (Bailey, 2018). UK consider
Blacklisting illegal under the employment act 1999 (blacklists) regulation 2010. People who
were banned or blacklisted, used the consulting company. Blacklisting can impact the employees
mentally as well as emotionally it can cause trauma and the person can lose their job. Being in
the black list means it is very difficult to find a new job that will recruit a blacklisted person.
This will affect the financial stability of the person. And force him to work in other industry and
start from new or will force the person to the leave the industry completely. The employees are
blacklisted because they are believed to be engaged in unethical or illegal activities. Blacklisting