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More Employment & Labor | Corporate & Business Aricles → Latest Firm's PressSzecskay Attorneys at Law Employers have to face a number of issues in the current situation, some of which have data protection implications. Below you will find a brief summary of the data protection issues which are typically arising as a result of the pandemic, in a Q&A format.With regard to question no. I below, we will discuss the content of the information paper issued by the Hungarian data protection authority on this subject a few days ago, and will then briefly address those data protection issues related to working at home (“home office”), which can be regarded as the main issues. Also, you can read below a summary of the amendment of the Labour Code, also due to the pandemic. I. Employer’s measures (posting questionnaires, body temperature monitoring) with regards to employees, persons doing work under a contractual relationship and customers, visitors
II. Working from home (Home office) It is important that the employer needs to have certain policies (even in the absence of any working from home), such as a security policy, device use policy, incident (data breach) policy, etc., which have been duly published at the work place.
It is important that the employer should enforce as many of the requirements as possible by way of IT settings (e.g. if the password is not strong enough, the employee will not be able to use the employer's system). III. Summary of the relevant provisions of Government Decree 47/2020 („Decree”) aimed at mitigating the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic
IV. Additional measures aimed at mitigating the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic
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Footnotes: The above content does not constitute legal advice; it merely provides a general summary of some of the main data protection aspects of the above-mentioned issues. |
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