Monitoring of employees in context of General Data Protection Regulation

1 Monitoring of employees in context of General Data Protection Regulation Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on the supervision and monitoring of employees from multiple perspectives. Based on the relevant European and national caselaw the thesis specifies whether employees shall have right to the protection of their privacy and integrity at the workplace. Thesis also analyses selected aspects of personal data protection with emphasis on personal data of employees as data subjects processed by employers as controllers. In particular attention is devoted to selected obligations, which arises from General Data Protection Regulation for such personal data processing in the light of relevant statements and guidelines provided by the European Data Protection Board, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party and the Office for Personal Data Protection. Thesis in detail addresses the supervision of employees carried out by § 316 of the Labour code, whereas interprets its provisions as well as conditions for establishing the supervision of employees arising from such interpretation. Classification of the provisions of the § 316 paragraph 1 to 3 and their interdependencies are further outlined. Thesis defines monitoring as one way to carry out supervision under paragraph 2 through the analysis of the term..