Slater & Gordon has been accused of making highly sensitive information about its staff available to their colleagues. It has not denied the allegations.

RollOnFriday understands that staff at Slater Gordon Solutions, the doomed Quindell Legal Services wing acquired by S&G, were able to access confidential HR documents about their colleagues on the firm's intranet. Sources told RollOnFriday that the information included salary reviews, and also leaver interviews which revealed "details of salary at time of exit, where the person had stated they were moving to, and the salary they had stated they had accepted when moving there". Given the number of people jumping ship from Slaters in recent months, that's a lot of data.

The information could apparently be viewed "by any staff member who had access to the intranet". Of particular interest were the salaries of heads of department. All in all a more entertaining lunchtime read than S&G's other news. The Australian firm announced last month that it was terminating its UK venture. It also disclosed on the Australian stock exchange this week that it was axing “approximately 7%” of its Australian employees.

Everyone agreed that John's furious exit interview was 5 star.
 

A Slater and Gordon spokesman told RollOnFriday “our data integrity is of paramount importance to us and any allegations of a data breach would be thoroughly investigated. However, we do not recognise the limited information provided by RollOnFriday which is insufficient for us to investigate”.*

Slater's data leak follows DLA Piper's brief experiment with 100% transparency last week.

*Translation: "We’re not 100% sure you've got us bang to rights, but just in case we're not going to deny it outright".
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Anonymous 15 September 17 14:01

This is an outrage if it is true. Worst part is that they are not coming clean about it at the first opportunity.

Roll On Friday 15 September 17 15:30

Nonny @9.20: True fax. I'm not S&G, but when I left my last shop, they said "how much are you moving on to at your new place?". They used it to figure out whether to offer me more wedge to stay. So they keep a record to judge pay levels at competitors in case the natives get restless...