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EU regulatory register · GDPR

Article 88Processing in the context of employment

CELEX 32016R0679 · Read on 2026-08-18 · Chapter IX

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1. Member States may, by law or by collective agreements, provide for more specific rules to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms in respect of the processing of employees' personal data in the employment context, in particular for the purposes of the recruitment, the performance of the contract of employment, including discharge of …

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1. Member States may, by law or by collective agreements, provide for more specific rules to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms in respect of the processing of employees' personal data in the employment context, in particular for the purposes of the recruitment, the performance of the contract of employment, including discharge of obligations laid down by law or by collective agreements, management, planning and organisation of work, equality and diversity in the workplace, health and safety at work, protection of employer's or customer's property and for the purposes of the exercise and enjoyment, on an individual or collective basis, of rights and benefits related to employment, and for the purpose of the termination of the employment relationship.

2. Those rules shall include suitable and specific measures to safeguard the data subject's human dignity, legitimate interests and fundamental rights, with particular regard to the transparency of processing, the transfer of personal data within a group of undertakings, or a group of enterprises engaged in a joint economic activity and monitoring systems at the work place.

3. Each Member State shall notify to the Commission those provisions of its law which it adopts pursuant to paragraph 1, by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them.

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  • C-65/23Court of Justice of the European Union

    MK v K GmbH

    Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 88(1) and (2) – Processing in the context of employment – Employees’ personal data – More specific rules provided for by a Member State pursuant to that Article 88 – Obligation to comply with Article 5, Article 6(1) and Article 9(1) and (2) of that regulation – Processing on the basis of a collective agreement – Margin of discretion of the parties to the collective agreement as regards the necessity of the processing of personal data provided for by that agreement – Scope of judicial review.

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