According to a press release issued by the European Commission today, the European Parliament and the Member States have agreed to adopt new rules that set the standard for protecting individuals who blow the whistle on breaches of EU law from dismissal, demotion, and other forms of retaliation. This reform, which was first proposed by … Continue Reading
Proskauer has released a white paper on “What Employers Need to Know about Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.” As you may know, on April 14, 2016, the European Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which will replace the EU’s current data privacy standard and begin to apply on May 25, 2018. This paper … Continue Reading
As previously reported on our Privacy Blog, TalkTalk, a major UK telecoms company, has been fined a record breaking £400,000 for a data breach after they were hacked. This fine, given by the ICO (the UK’s data protection authority), followed an in-depth investigation into an attack by hackers on TalkTalk’s systems where hackers obtained the details … Continue Reading
European courts continue to clarify the right of employers to review their employees’ emails. As we discussed previously, the European Court of Human Rights and the National Labor Relations Board of the U.S. have recognized that employers have the right to monitor their employees’ internet communications in order to ensure productivity during work. (To review … Continue Reading
A brief rundown of developments in recent weeks in the area of EU data protection law: EU Data Protection Regulation On Monday, June 15, the EU Council (comprised, for purposes of data protection reform, of the justice ministers from each of the EU member states) reached an agreement on a draft data protection regulation, marking … Continue Reading
The US-EU Safe Harbor has been back in the news recently as Germany’s data protection commissioners met at the end of January and expressed impatience at the delay in implementing what many view as necessary reforms to the program. The European Court of Justice also recently heard a challenge to Facebook’s reliance on the Safe … Continue Reading
Webinar – Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Program: Proskauer’s Lloyd Chinn will be a panelist at The American Bar Association’s webinar “International Laws Governing Cross Border Discovery, Privilege, Confidentiality and Data Privacy”. Lloyd and his panel will focus on the significant challenges posed by discovery sought from outside the United States, given the limited scope of … Continue Reading
By Cecile Martin, Jeremy M. Mittman and Daniel Ornstein on Posted in Privacy
For the first article of this blog, the Proskauer International Labor Group has decided to focus on this tricky question since we know that our friends and clients having an international presence face various issues when it comes to try to comply with all different local regulations about data privacy.… Continue Reading
Proskauer’s International Labor and Employment Group participated to the National Foreign Trade Council conference held in New York on July 14, 2011, at the Annual International Human Resources Management Forum: Data Privacy Issues in Cross-Border Employment Cécile Martin, Special International Labor & Employment Counsel, Paris Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Partner, New York SEMINAR: International Data Privacy … Continue Reading
WEBINAR – Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Issues Covered: Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and the rest of the new social networking media have revolutionized the ways employees communicate with each other, but have left employers struggling to figure out how or whether rules regarding workplace confidentiality, loyalty, privacy and monitoring apply to these new forums. For multinational employers, … Continue Reading
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