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Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers 101

K&L Gates LLP on 3/27/2024

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

Employee Data Protection 101

Osano on 3/31/2023

For the most part, businesses gather employee data without too much thought. Sure, some data is obviously private, like employee social security numbers, but other than that, businesses can pretty much do what they want with...more

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

Fox Rothschild LLP on 11/28/2022

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

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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/23/2022

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

UK Employment Flash - September 2021

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/24/2021

In this issue of UK Employment Flash, we examine the latest employment law developments from the UK, including the law governing the return to the workplace and flexible working requests and a proposal to impose a duty on...more

Collecting Employee Information? It's Time to Wake Up

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 1/12/2021

Employers collect data about their employees. It starts with employees’ salary data, resumes, and work hours. It continues with fingerprints and images from security cameras, followed by employee meals and business trip...more

COVID-19 Coronavirus Business Impact: ICO Issues Guidance on Workplace Testing

Dechert LLP on 5/26/2020

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently issued guidance for employers on the issues they need to bear in mind when considering the introduction of testing as part of their arrangements for returning staff to the...more

COVID-19 Coronavirus: Protecting Employee Personal Data

Dechert LLP on 3/16/2020

Employers’ primary concern at this time will be the health and safety of their employees in the wake of what has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. However, employers should still have regard to...more

Maintaining Employees’ Privacy During a Public Health Crisis

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/4/2020

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

Lessons Learned From The Greek Supervisory Authority’s PwC Decision on Employee Data Under GDPR

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 10/31/2019

On 26 July 2019, the Greek Supervisory Authority (SA) found Pricewaterhouse Coopers (“PwC”) not compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the processing of its Greek employees’ personal data. The...more

New Zealand: Critical Employment Law Changes

Littler on 5/6/2019

New Zealand employers should be aware that there are several significant legislative changes to the Employment Relations Act 2000 (the Act) taking effect this spring. This article briefly reviews key amendments that recently...more

France Continues to Focus on Use of Biometrics

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/3/2019

The French CNIL (the country’s data protection authority) has released rules for how companies can use the biometric information of their employees. Fingerprint scanning is a popular method for “clocking in” around the globe,...more

The Present-Future of Work: 2018 Trends and 2019 Predictions

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/30/2018

There is a visceral and palpable dynamic emerging in global workplaces: tension. Tension between what is potentially knowable—and what is actually known. Tension between the present and the future state of work. Tension...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/4/2018

It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal...more

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

Dechert LLP on 8/22/2017

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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