Our London employment team is delighted to share the first edition of our quarterly HR Privacy newsletter keeping you updated with key cases, developments and trends in UK and EU-wide HR data privacy matters. This edition includes an interesting employment tribunal decision considering whether an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy over her private Facebook posts, the latest guidance on data subject access requests and an update in relation to the EU-US Data Privacy…
In early May, private sector employers in New York will face new disclosure requirements for electronic monitoring of employees. Beginning May 7, 2022, New York will join Connecticut and Delaware among the states that now require employers to provide written notice to new hires who are subject to electronic monitoring. These new disclosure requirements come after Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law amendments to Civil Rights Chapter 6, Article 5, Section 52-C*2. Here’s what New York…
Italy experienced one of the longest and most severe lock-downs during the peak of the pandemic. This made it be one of the first countries to launch a national contact tracing App (Immuni) and a national COVID Certificate (green pass) and from October 15, Italy has become the first European country which has made the green pass mandatory to access the workplace. After an intense period of discussions, on September 21st Decree No. 127/2021 introduced…
US employers want employees to return to the brick and mortar workplace but with the COVID-19 Delta variant rampaging across the US and elsewhere, many employers are requiring employees to be vaccinated before they return – and they are requiring proof of vaccination. So, what can employers do to track the vaccination status of their employees? In this Quick Chat video, our Labor and Employment and Data Privacy lawyers discuss risks and best practices for US employers on tracking…
Introduction Digital transformation has gained traction in recent years and affects employment relationships more than ever. The emergence of the so-called platform economy is certainly the epitome of this development. However, new technologies and methods of collaboration also need to comply with legal requirements. At the end of 2020, the Federal Labour Court (FLC) likely turned the platform business model upside down, when the judges decided that a crowdworker using a platform’s app on a…
Brian Hengesbaugh and Julia Wilson, a leading employment and privacy partner in our London office, join for this episode of Connect on Tech to discuss privacy in the work place and key issues employers are facing. In this podcast, Brian and Julia take a deep dive into four key areas employers must carefully navigate in the data and privacy realm – i) the processing of testing and vaccination data, ii) employee monitoring in various guises from clever…
A fundamental element of any information governance program is for organizations to have a defensible records retention schedule (RRS).
As vaccines become more readily available in Europe and the Gulf region, employers have a lot of questions about how this changes the return to the workplace.
We discuss best practices for collecting and storing employee vaccination records and tracking proof of employee vaccination status.
Our Labor and Employment, Global Immigration and Mobility, and Data Privacy lawyers discuss vaccine passports — what they are, how countries are already using them domestically and for international travelers, data privacy concerns related to the use of digital health documentation, and what employers should keep top-of-mind as vaccine passports become more common. Click here to watch Our Labor and Employment blog, The Employer Report, complements our video series, providing written legal updates on reopening and other hot topics.…