The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by one of the UK’s major supermarket chains, overturning a finding that it was vicariously liable for a rogue employee’s deliberate disclosure of payroll data related to some 100,000 co-workers, of whom 10,000 brought a group claim for damages. |
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Case Reports |
2020/21 Employer not liable for misuse of personal data by ‘rogue’ employee (UK) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy |
Auteurs | Richard Lister |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Case Reports |
2020/22 Works council’s right to inspect remuneration lists (GE) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Information and Consultation, Privacy |
Auteurs | Robert Pacholski |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, “BAG”) has held that a works council must be provided with the documents necessary for carrying out its duties at any time on request. A works committee or another committee of the works council formed in accordance with the provisions of the Works Constitution Act (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, “BetrVG”) is entitled to inspect the lists of gross wages. This right to inspect is not limited to anonymized gross pay lists. Data protection considerations do not dictate that the right is limited to anonymized gross payrolls. The processing of personal data associated with the right of inspection is permitted under the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, “BDSG”). |
Editorial |
Sharing is caring |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Case Reports |
2020/34 Challenge to validity of Workplace Relations Act 2015 unsuccessful (IR) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Unfair Dismissal, Fair Trial, Miscellaneous |
Auteurs | Orla O’Leary |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
A recent challenge to the constitutionality of the Irish Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has failed. The applicant in the case at hand argued that the WRC was unconstitutional for two reasons: (a) that the WRC carries out the administration of justice in breach of the general constitutional rule that only the courts may administer justice; and (b) several of the statutory procedures of the WRC were so deficient that they failed to vindicate the applicant’s personal constitutional rights. The High Court of Ireland dismissed both arguments. |
Case Reports |
2020/36 Employer must pay compensation to an employee for violation of employee’s privacy due to GPS system in company car (AT) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy |
Auteurs | Lukas Disarò |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Austrian Supreme Court has confirmed that an employer must pay compensation to an employee due to a violation of the employee’s privacy. The employer implemented a GPS system in its company cars without the employee’s knowledge and without legal basis. |
Case Law |
2020/1 EELC’s review of the year 2019 |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Ruben Houweling, Daiva Petrylaitė, Peter Schöffmann e.a. |
Samenvatting |
Various of our academic board analysed employment law cases from last year. However, first, we start with some general remarks. |
Rulings |
ECtHR 17 October 2019, applications no. 1874/13 and 8567/13 (López Ribalda), Privacy, Fair Trial, Unfair DismissalLópez Ribalda and others – v – Spain |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy, Fair Trial, Unfair Dismissal |
Samenvatting |
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Case Reports |
2019/19 Employer liable for wrongful disclosure of data by ‘rogue’ employee (UK) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy |
Auteurs | Sean Illing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, the ‘BAG’) has held that pre-employment as a freelancer must be taken into account in relation to the number of years having been with a firm as a freelancer when assessing the legality of a fixed-term contract due to the character of the specific deployment. |
Case Reports |
2019/5 For how long may data of a job applicant be stored? (AT) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy, Discrimination, General |
Auteurs | Sophie Mantler en Andreas Tinhofer |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
A provision of Dutch law, according to which employees who lose their jobs upon retirement are excluded from the right to statutory severance compensation, is not in breach of the Framework Directive. |
Law Review |
2019/1 EELC’s review of the year 2018 |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Auteurs | Ruben Houweling, Catherine Barnard, Filip Dorssemont e.a. |
Samenvatting |
For the second time, various of our academic board analysed employment law cases from last year. However, first, we start with some general remarks. |
Case Reports |
2018/33 Availability periods: working hours or rest periods? (PO) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Working time |
Auteurs | Dora Joana |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Oporto Court of Appeal held that the employee’s availability 24 hours per day, 6 days per week, breaches the employee’s right to rest. However, such breach does not qualify the availability periods as overtime. The Court also found that the continuous use of a GPS system breached the employee’s right to privacy. |
Case Reports |
2018/4 Racist “liking” on Facebook may justify dismissal for serious misconduct (BE) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Freedom of expression, Unfair dismissal |
Auteurs | Gautier Busschaert |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Racist ‘liking’ on Facebook may justify dismissal for serious misconduct, says the Labour Court of Liège in a decision of 24 March 2017. This case is interesting because, to the author’s knowledge, it is the first time that a simple ‘like’ (as opposed to a proper comment) on Facebook is assessed by a Belgian judge with a view to validate a dismissal for serious misconduct. This case also raises serious questions about the limits to the freedom of expression in social media. |
Law Review |
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Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Auteurs | Ruben Houweling, Catherine Barnard, Zef Even e.a. |
Samenvatting |
This is the first time we have produced a review of employment law cases from the previous year, based on analysis by various of our academic board members. But before looking at their findings, we would first like to make some general remarks. |
Editorial |
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Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Case Reports |
2018/5 Evidence from long-term keylogger surveillance cannot be used in a dismissal lawsuit (GE) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Unfair dismissal, Privacy |
Auteurs | Paul Schreiner |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The German federal court for labour law matters, the Bundesarbeitsgericht (the ‘BAG’), has held that evidence cannot be used in a dismissal lawsuit if the employer has obtained it from long-term surveillance using keylogger-software. Employers must not keep their employees under constant surveillance and must therefore expect their legal position to be weak if they try to dismiss an employee based on findings from such monitoring. The court ruling preceded the ECtHR Barbulescu ruling of 5 September 2017 (featured in EELC 2017/4) in a similar case. |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 9 January 2018, application nos. 1874/13 and 8567/13, Fundamental rights, PrivacyLopez Ribalda – v – Spain, Spanish case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Fundamental rights, Privacy |
Samenvatting |
The Spanish courts breached Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights by accepting covert footage as valid evidence in court. |
Editorial |
Looking both back and forward |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2017 |
ECtHR Court Watch |
ECtHR 5 September 2017 (Barbulescu), Application no. 61496/08, PrivacyBarbulescu – v – Romania, Romanian case |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 4 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Fundamental rights, Privacy |
Samenvatting |
In Barbulescu, the Court examined for the first time a case concerning the monitoring of an employee’s electronic communications by a private employer. The Grand Chamber decided differently from the Chamber, when it concluded that the Romanian courts, in reviewing the decision of a private employer to dismiss an employee after having monitored his electronic communications, failed to strike a fair balance between the interests at stake: namely the employee’s right to respect for his private life and correspondence, on the one hand, and his employer’s right to take measures to ensure the smooth running of the company, on the other. |
Case Reports |
2017/21 Legal rules for employers for monitoring employees in Slovakia (SK) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | Privacy, Unfair dismissal |
Auteurs | Gabriel Havrilla en Richard Sanák |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
An employer can monitor an employee’s emails provided it has made it clear beforehand that it might do so. It is permissible for the employer to prohibit employees from using its electronical equipment for private use, but if the employer is going to check whether this rule was being complied with, it needs to have a significant reason to do so and must respect the principles of legality legitimacy and proportionality. |