Employee Data Privacy - A Regional Overview

Introduction

All employers collect, handle and use employee personal data. Most jurisdictions have laws regulating such collection, handling and use of employee personal data. With increasing globalization and mobility of employees and the relative ease with which data can be transferred between legal entities and across borders complying with all requirement relating to personal data has become an increasingly diffi cult exercise. This publication attempts to ease such burden.

This publication covers 26 diff erent jurisdictions in EMEA. For each of the jurisdictions covered we asked the following questions:

1. Is there a law/Code or other similar document regulating the collection, use and/or handling of an employee's personal data in your jurisdiction?