Jo Easton

The government recently published a new Employment Rights Bill, which presents an opportunity to make the existing rights of people with criminal records in recruitment and employment easier to understand and therefore more accessible. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) sets limits on what information potential or current employers can collect and hold about someone’s […]

It is perhaps understandable why some employers are tempted to check applicants on social media. It can sometimes seem like the more information available, the better. However, this is rarely actually the case. Often employers will end up with information they don’t want or, even worse, that legally they shouldn’t have. An example is for […]