Germany: Berlin prepares a special labor world bill on the protection of personal data

Understand who may, but for four years of Grand Coalition, Angela Merkel’s conservative party (CDU) always blocked its democrat partners’ request for a law on the protection of employees’ personal data (Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz). Indeed, the previous government simply improved the chapter dedicated to the labor world in the Federal Law on the Protection of Data (see our dispatch No. 090806). Now reelected to the government, but this time with the liberal party (FDP) as its ally, the CDU finally changed its mind. Thomas de Maizières, Federal Minister for Home Affairs, announced that one of his first tasks would be to come up with such a law.
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kel’s conservative party (CDU) always blocked its democrat partners’ request for a law on the protection of employees’ personal data (Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz). Indeed, the previous government simply improved the chapter dedicated to the labor world in the Federal Law on the Protection of Data (see our dispatch No. 090806). Now reelected to the government, but this time with the liberal party (FDP) as its ally, the CDU finally changed its mind. Thomas de Maizières, Federal Minister for Hom

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