Compliance Junction reports: In Germany the data protection authority located in Hamburg has announced that H&M, the second biggest retailer in the world, is being fined €35.2 (US $41.3m) for breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in relation to the monitoring of several hundred staff member by a German subsidiary. The data protection…
Category: Workplace
Should your company know who you’re dating *outside* work?
Graham Cluley writes: The Coronavirus pandemic has pretty much killed off office romances, and the chances of a snog in the stationery cupboard, but now at least one firm might be pooping over romance outside of the workplace as well. BBC News reports that BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management firm, has told all of its 16,000…
California Leads the Way for Pay Data Collection and Reporting
Lynne Anne Anderson, Kristin Jones Pierre, and Alexa E. Miller of Faegre Drinker write: With the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) announcement that it would abandon current efforts to collect the controversial Component 2 pay data, California has taken the first step in filling the void left behind by seeking to enact a state law requirement to…
White Castle Can’t Beat Worker Privacy Suit over Fingerprints
Andrea Vittorio reports: White Castle System Inc. can’t beat claims that it invaded workers’ privacy by collecting and sharing fingerprint data without consent, an Illinois federal district court ruled. The burger chain had tried to toss the lawsuit for lack of timeliness, because the alleged violations of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act began in…