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Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers 101

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance for employers on monitoring workers lawfully, transparently and fairly. The guidance aims to protect workers’ data protection rights and help...more

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Caveat Employer? In the EU and California, Employers Must Beware!

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Employers should have in place a process to delete former employees’ information – including public facing information and photos – to meet their retention limitation requirements, according to the Belgian Data Protection...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Increased Scrutiny of Employee Monitoring Practices: Top 5 Takeaways Employers Need to Know

We are observing growing regulatory scrutiny of advanced employee monitoring practices, particularly from the European Union. Here are the key takeaways... ...more

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July 2020: The Top 17 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Frequently Asked Questions on Workplace Privacy and COVID-19

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As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the United States, employers that currently have employees reporting into their facility each day are being forced to consider stringent measures to protect the health and safety of...more

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5 Recommendations for French HR on How to Process Personal Data Collected During COVID-19

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As the coronavirus has spread worldwide to reach pandemic level, employers are putting into place measures group-wide to limit risks of contagion within the work place. Some of these measures have led companies to question...more

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Maintaining Employees’ Privacy During a Public Health Crisis

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread, employers have been trying to strike a balance between safety and privacy as they apply their own policies and attempt to follow laws such as the General Data...more

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Employee Video Surveillance: Position of the European Court of Human Rights

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On October 17, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) approved the installation of a Closed-Circuit Television (“CCTV”) surveillance system which was used to monitor supermarket cashiers without informing those...more

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European Court Limits Workplace Email Monitoring

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In its recent Grand Chamber judgment, the European Court of Human Rights held that employers can monitor an employee's email only if they provide advance notice. By a vote of 11-6, the Court found that failure to provide such...more

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Consent under the General Data Protection Regulation: what are the alternatives for employers?

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The UK's Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has launched a series of blogs designed to “bust some of the myths” which she believes have developed around the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Her first...more

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Barbulescu – Employers' Rights to Access Employees’ Emails/Personal Internet Usage

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The Press has given a lot of coverage to last Tuesday’s European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision in Barbulescu. See Times article, “Employers allowed to look at your private messages”. As often is the case,...more

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Employment Law Commentary, October 2015

EU Employment Issues In M&A Transactions - Across industry sectors, there is one thing that all organizations have in common—people. Every organization needs a workforce to steer it in the right direction. This means...more

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