Welcome to the next edition of our quarterly HR Privacy newsletter, designed to keep you updated with key cases, enforcement action, legal developments, trends and news relating to employment/HR data privacy matters, which is brought to you by the Baker McKenzie EMEA Employment and Compensation practice group. This edition explores high-profile case-law decisions and enforcement action, new consultations, regulations, guidance and relevant news in the EU, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, South Africa and Spain markets.…
In a groundbreaking decision, an Austrian regional court has held that certain provisions of the Collective Redress Directive (Directive (EU) 2020/1828, âCRDâ, sometimes also referred to as Representative Actions Directive) are directly applicable given that Austria failed to transpose the directive into national law. As a consequence, the EUâs rules on privacy, AI, and digital products will soon see increased private collective enforcement. The CRD, adopted by the European Union in 2020, aims to facilitate…