The Employment Relations: Drawbacks of Blacklisting and GDPR Rules

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