Personal data

Employers process a lot of personal data of their employees. We also refer to this as personnel data.

Monitoring employees

Employers may feel the need to monitor their employees. For example, when people work from home. Monitoring personnel is not always prohibited.

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Sick employees

There are strict rules for recording and sharing information about sick employees.

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Works council

Taking privacy in the workplace into account is very important. The works council plays a major role in this.

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Employment agency

An employment agency must adhere to the same privacy rules as other employers. Special rules do apply to the phase in which people register with an employment agency.

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Working from home safely

Many people (partly) work from home. The risk of working from home is that security may not be as good as at the office and that this could result in sensitive data being released.

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Job applications

During job applications, employers collect a lot of personal data from applicants.

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Screening

Screening applicants and employees is only allowed under certain statutory conditions.

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Benefits and social security

A lot of personal data are needed to assess whether someone can receive benefits or an allowance, such as financial data.

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Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) identifies privacy risks in the workplace and in social security

Social Insurance Bank fined for inadequate identity checks

UWV fined for poor security when sending group messages