Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
> "James Hammerton" wrote in message
> news:68h136F2stlmsU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Yet more guilt by accusation in Britain. From the BBC
>> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7389547.stm):
>>
>> "To critics it sounds like a scenario from some Orwellian nightmare.
>>
>> An online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty,
>> regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime, which
>> bosses can access when vetting potential employees.
>>
>> But this is no dystopian fantasy. Later this month, the National
>> Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR) is expected to go live.
>>
>> Organisers say that major companies including Harrods, Selfridges
>> and Reed Managed Services have already signed up to the scheme. By
>> the end of May they will be able to check whether candidates for
>> jobs have faced allegations of stealing, forgery, fraud, damaging
>> company property or causing a loss to their employers and suppliers.
>>
>> Workers sacked for these offences will be included on the register,
>> regardless of whether police had enough evidence to convict them.
>> Also on the list will be employees who resigned before they could
>> face disciplinary proceedings at work.
>>
>> Note the vague "causing loss to their employers" bit of this.
>>
>> And who’s behind this? The AABC, a group set up under a partnership
>> between the Home Office and the British Retail Consortium (i.e. a bit of
>> corporate statism):
>>
>> The register is an initiative of Action Against Business Crime
>> (AABC), which was established as a joint venture between the Home
>> Office and the British Retail Consortium “to set up and maintain
>> business crime reduction partnerships”.
>>
>> To be fair to the Home Office they say they stopped funding the AABC this
>> year.
>>
>> I wonder whether AABC could be sued for libel by someone wrongly accused
>> via this database?
>
> Seems to be punishment without trial, which is forbidden by the human rights
> act.
>
> And yes it does appear to be libelous.
>
>
> Mind you so many business these days are run by criminals that
> they might very the the fact that you are percieved to be a criminal
> as a positive attribute, someone who would fit in well with the crooks
> already working there.
And what of the Data Protection Act?
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