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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

Developing a Global Data Protection Framework for Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

Littler on 3/1/2024

As employment-related artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools proliferate, multinational employers feel increasing pressure to deploy AI across their global offices. These tools can provide great value and efficiency across the...more

Social elections 2024: Know your GDPR obligations

A&O Shearman on 12/15/2023

Compliance with GDPR requirements is a key factor when you plan and conduct social elections. Since the social elections procedure involves the processing of a lot of personal employee data, for example, the list of...more

Department of Commerce Launches the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: Considerations for Multinational Employers that Transfer EU...

Littler on 7/20/2023

As of July 17, 2023, U.S.-based multinational employers that can access the personal data of their workforce members in the European Union (EU) via a human resources information system (HRIS), or otherwise transfer the...more

Court of Justice of the European Union Case on DSARs: Summary of Information Is Not Enough!

Littler on 5/30/2023

As many employers will be aware, data subject access requests (DSARs) can take up a significant amount of business resources and are a common tactic used by disgruntled employees. A recent decision from the Court of Justice...more

Kontrola trzeźwości zgodna z przepisami RODO

Hogan Lovells on 12/16/2022

Zgodnie z niedawno uchwaloną przez Sejm ustawą o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks pracy oraz niektórych innych ustaw, pracodawcy uzyskają możliwość kontrolowania pracowników (i nie tylko – patrz niżej) pod kątem zawartości alkoholu...more

Is the UK about to scrap GDPR?

Littler on 10/1/2021

UK employers have just about got used to the idea of GDPR, but the government has launched a consultation on reforms to the data protection regime....more

Colorado Passes New Comprehensive Consumer Data Protection Act

UB Greensfelder LLP on 8/2/2021

Earlier this month, the governor of Colorado signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), making Colorado the third state to enact a comprehensive data security law after California in 2018 and Virginia in March 2021. The...more

Datenschutz: Betriebsvereinbarungen als Rechtsgrundlage für nicht erforderliche Verarbeitungen von Beschäftigtendaten

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/23/2021

Das Landesarbeitsgericht Baden-Württemberg hat sich mit Urteil vom 25. Februar 2020 (Az. 17 Sa 37/20) u.a. zu Betriebsvereinbarungen als Erlaubnistatbestand für nicht erforderliche Verarbeitungen personenbezogener Daten...more

35 million reasons to take privacy seriously: German data protection authority hits fashion store owner H&M with second-highest...

Spirit Legal on 10/5/2020

It was announced today that the Hamburg data protection authority (DPA) has imposed a fine of a whopping €35,258,707.95 on the fashion retailer H&M Hennes & Mauritz Online Shop A.B. & Co. KG, which is based in Hamburg....more

Belgian DPA Issues Guidance on Temperature Measurements in the Context of COVID-19

Hogan Lovells on 6/17/2020

In the context of their return-to-work policies companies are seeking solutions to detect individuals with fever at the entrance of their premises with the aim of preventing further contamination within the buildings. ...more

Establishing and Managing a Business in the UK 2020

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/27/2020

This guide has been compiled to give an overview of the rudimentary legal aspects that should be considered by anyone thinking of establishing a business in the UK. It is aimed at businesses that may already be established in...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

A GDPR Update for Employers, Part IV: Implementing Lessons Learned From GDPR Complaints and Enforcement Actions

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/22/2019

Much has happened since the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Many EU countries have enacted national legislation to implement and expand the requirements of the...more

Data Breach in Brief: Knowing the Risks and Protecting Your Company

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/17/2018

Data breaches continue to be an unfortunate risk that companies face with increasing frequency. In this podcast, Rebecca Bennett, Stephen Riga, and Justin Tarka discuss data breaches from both a U.S. and EU perspective,...more

UK High Court: Employers Are Liable for Employee Data Breaches

Morgan Lewis on 10/25/2018

The UK Court of Appeal recently upheld a decision by the UK High Court ruling that employers can be vicariously liable for an employee’s misuse of personal data under the control of the employer. Employers should also be...more

Littler Global Guide - Belgium - Q3 2018

Littler on 10/19/2018

Law Implementing GDPR Published in Belgian Official Gazette - New Legislation Enacted - The Belgian Law of July 30, 2018, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data was...more

Littler Global Guide - Portugal - Q2 2018

Littler on 7/24/2018

Implications of the EU’s GDPR on Employment Contracts - New Legislation Enacted - The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, of April 27, 2016, entered into force on May 25, 2018....more

Using Employees' Fingerprints for Timekeeping: Protecting Employee Data and Minimizing Risk

Troutman Pepper on 6/29/2018

Employers increasingly maintain timekeeping systems that require employees to clock in and out of work using their fingerprints to reduce the risk of coworkers clocking in for each other (so-called “buddy punching”) and to...more

A Human Resources Manager’s Guide to the GDPR (Part 4)

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 6/11/2018

This article is Part 4 of our series on the GDPR for U.S.-based companies. Part 1 assisted U.S.-based companies in determining whether the GDPR applies to them; Part 2 provided an overview of the GDPR’s key concepts and...more

GDPR Is Here: Not Yet Compliant? What Employers Need to Consider

Fisher Phillips on 5/31/2018

After much anticipation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally went into effect on May 25, 2018. For employers, that means some enhanced employee rights, and the risk of significant penalties for...more

GDPR and Employers – Five Questions Answered

Baker Donelson on 5/31/2018

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a far-reaching and formidable regulatory scheme that governs the processing and handling of personal data. Although it formally took effect on May 25, 2018,...more

HR Documents Provide Compliance Safeguard in Line with Approaching GDPR

Harris Beach PLLC on 5/9/2018

As employers continue to prepare for compliance with respect to the European Union’s (“EU”) new overarching data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), employers are reminded to take necessary...more

Employment Alert - Le traitement des données RH et le règlement européen sur la protection des données (« RGPD »)

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 4/9/2018

Paris partner Fabienne Arrighi publishes an Employment Alert about HR data processing and the new EU GDPR. ...more

The GDPR Covers Employee/HR Data and It's Tricky, Tricky (Tricky) Tricky: What HR Needs to Know

Dickinson Wright on 4/6/2018

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on May 25, 2018, so in less than 60 days. While many companies have been working to ensure compliance with respect to their customer and...more

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