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We want to monitor employee activity, what about works council and CLA?

Staff monitoring lives under GDPR, labour law and works-council rules. WOR article 27 requires works-council consent for personnel-tracking arrangements. A DPIA up front is practical standard.

Try this first

  1. 1Define purpose and means. Productivity, security or fraud detection, and what minimal means achieves it? That purpose lands in policy and privacy notice.
  2. 2Run a DPIA. Employee monitoring is structural and large-scale by definition, so risks to subjects must be assessed.
  3. 3Get works-council consent under WOR article 27 for the personnel-tracking system. No consent, no rollout.
  4. 4Check the CLA. Some collective agreements add requirements or ban specific monitoring; read them or ask your employer's organisation.
  5. 5Communicate to staff. A staff regulation with clear wording on what is monitored, why, and what rights employees have belongs in the package.

When to bring us in

Targeted monitoring of an individual employee (suspected fraud, for example) needs legal advice and evidence strategy up front.

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