While this topic is still subject to vivid debates, the MEPs adopted – today, March 12, their first reading report on the draft regulation concerning the protection of people regarding the treatment and circulation of personal data. The goal is to send a clear political signal to the Council of Ministers, which is stuck on the subject. Debates around the general regulation on the protection of data, supposed to replace Directive 95/46 that supervises all rules pertaining to the protection of personal data in Europe, are much less advanced in the Council. In the draft regulation adopted by the Parliament, which will be discussed with the Ministers, Article 82, dedicated to the protection of data within the framework of an employment relationship, is more substantial than in the initial version.
From an HR dimension that was barely taken into account in the initial draft… The ambition of the draft regulation presented in January 2012 by Commissioner Viviane Reding (see article No. 120117), which mostly aimed to supervise the practices of Facebook, Google and the likes, led the latter to think nothing of the particular situation of private data handled within the framework of an employment relationship. While businesses could appreciate certain aspects (the possibility of having a single applicable legislation and reporting to a single national control authority, not 28), others were more upsetting, e.g.
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