Privacy@work: A European and Comparative Perspective

<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The right to privacy is a fundamental right. Along with the related right to personal data protection, it has come to take a central place in contemporary employment relations and shows significant relevance for the future of work. This thoroughly researched volume, which offers insightful essays by leading European academics and policymakers in labour and employment law, is the first to present a thoroughly up-to-date Europe-wide survey and analysis of the intensive and growing interaction of workplace relations systems with developments in privacy law.</span>

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<p style="text-indent:0cm;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">With abundant reference to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, and the work of the International Labour Organisation, the book proceeds as a series of country chapters, each by a recognised expert in a specific jurisdiction. Legal comparison is based on a questionnaire circulated to the contributors in advance. Each country chapter addresses the national legal weight of such issues and topics as the following:</span>

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• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">legitimacy, purpose limitation, and data minimisation;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">transparency;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">role of consent;</span>

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• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">health-related data, including biometrics and psychological testing;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">monitoring and surveillance; and</span>

• <p style="margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt: 5.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="Paraindent"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:black">use of social media.</span>

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Frank Hendrickx, Professor of labour law at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the editor-in chief of the European Labour Law Journal, editor of the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations and the general editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. He is also co-editor of the Global Workplace Law & Policy Blog. Elena Gramano, Assistant Professor of Labour Law at Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies. Previously, she worked as a Researcher in labour law at the University of Frankfurt and at the University of Roma Tre. David Mangan, A Canadian-trained lawyer, based in Ireland at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), Professional Development, and the Université Catholique de Lyon (France). From 2022 to 2023, he has been a Global Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Law & Criminology. David is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Labour Law Journal, and a European Developments editor, as well as a co-editor of the Wolters Kluwer-hosted blog Global Workplace Law & Policy.