The ICO’s Monitoring at Work Guidance: Time for action

The ICO’s Monitoring at Work Guidance: Time for action

20 February 2024

Lewis Silkin, London

Overview

Date: Tuesday 20 February 2024
Times: 15.00 to 17.30 followed by drinks
Location: Lewis Silkin, London
Type: In-person only
CPE Credits: up to 2

This event will explore how organisations are implementing the ICO's recent Employment practices and data protection: monitoring workers guidance.

The ICO’s guidance aims to:

• Help provide greater certainty for organisations about how the ICO will interpret relevant law and regulation as it relates to monitoring workers
• Protect workers’ data protection rights
• Help employers to build trust with workers both directly employed and via contractors

In this session we will:

• Learn about the changes the new guidance brings and how the ICO expects employers to respond
• Explore the nuances in the EU (with a focus on Germany) about monitoring (and how it can be hard to have a “one size fits all approach” which works in the UK, France, Germany et al)
• Discuss Artificial Intelligence in the worker monitoring space and what employers need to know
• Analyse how works councils and employee representative bodies approach worker monitoring
• And finally - (Try to) Answer all and any questions you might have

Keeping employment records: We will also cover the ICO’s latest consultation, published in December, on keeping employment records, and recruitment and selection. Issues include the kinds of records which employers can keep on their workers, how to lawfully process workers’ personal information and whether organisations can rely on employees’ consent. Other interesting areas include processing personal data in mergers and acquisitions, collecting workers’ information to use for equal opportunity monitoring, and what to consider when providing references.

Speakers

• Alexander Milner-Smith, Partner, Lewis Silkin
• Dr Lutz Keppeller, Partner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
• Rupert Paines, Barrister, 11KBW
• Kerry Salisbury, Associate, Lewis Silkin

Chairperson

• Bryony Long, Partner, Lewis Silkin

Programme

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Time	Session
15.00	Registration
15.30	Introductions Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, PL&B Bryony Long, Partner, Lewis Silkin
15.40	What types of monitoring are we talking about? Alexander Milner-Smith, Partner, Lewis Silkin
15.50	Learn about the changes the new guidance brings and how the ICO expects employers to respond Rupert Paines, Barrister, 11KBW
16.10	Q&A
16.15	Explore the nuances in the EU (with a focus on Germany) about monitoring (and how it can be hard to have a “one size fits all approach” which works in the UK, France, Germany et al) Alexander Milner-Smith, Partner, Lewis Silkin Dr Lutz Keppeller, Partner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
16.45	Q&A
16.50	Artificial Intelligence in the worker monitoring space and what employers need to know Alexander Milner-Smith, Partner, Lewis Silkin
17.00	How are works councils and employee representative bodies approaching worker monitoring? Dr Lutz Keppeller, Partner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Kerry Salisbury, Associate, Lewis Silkin
17.10	ICO guidance - employment practices and data protection – consultations on “Keeping employment records” and “Recruitment and selection” – what issues would you like to address? Alexander Milner-Smith, Partner, Lewis Silkin
17.25	Q&A
17.30	Drinks reception

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Registration

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PL&B Report Subscribers can register for this event for free, if register by 10 February 2024.

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- To qualify for a free place at this event, you must subscribe to the International or UK Report and register your place by 10 February 2024 by emailing info@privacylaws.com.
- Any registration after 10 February 2024 will be charged the applicable registration fee.
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