Employee screening – a hiring necessity or an invasion of privacy? Employee background screening has become an integral part of the recruitment process. Many companies use it as a means to not only verify potential employees’ education, experience and other credentials before appointing them, but also to ensure that they hire the right candidate for...
Public and private bodies can now register their information officers (IOs), as required by the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and submit their Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) section 32 reports via the Information Regulator’s new online portals. While manual applications will continue to be administered to accommodate special circumstances, the Information...
JULY 2021 – SOUTH AFRICA POPI ACT and PAIA – INFORMATION REGULATOR NOTICES It is important that employers note the following: Commencement of certain sections of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act The Information Regulator has extended the commencement date of section 58(2) of the POPI Act, 2013 provision that requires organisations to...
JUNE 2020 – SOUTH AFRICA POPI ACT COMMENCEMENT It is important that employers note the following: Commencement of the remaining sections of the POPI (Protection of Personal Information) Act The POPI Act was promulgated on 26 November 2013, with certain sections of the Act coming into effect on 11 April 2014. The purpose of the...
