Data Protection In The Workplace: Employers' Duties

As an employer, you process and collect personal data of your employees on a daily basis and for various purposes. Personal data is processed about employees before, during and after an employment relationship.

The data may concern employee benefits, salary, records of sick leave, maternity leave, performance evaluation and others. Some of that information you are obligated to collect and process under the provisions of the Labour Law, while some of the data is processed for internal procedures and policies. However, as an employer, you should take into account the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Law (the PDPL). The data protection rules, as embodied in the PDPL, establish the framework for how this information should be handled.