At KG Law Firm, the health and safety of its employees remain number one priority and the firm is working hard to make sure that it minimizes the risks related to the spread of Covid-19. KG Law Firm has therefore adopted the following preventive and protective measures: It provides COVID-19 tests for all employees with expenses fully covered by the firm; It has implemented temperature screening for all people entering its premises; It promotes “social distancing” and hence asks to limit close personal interactions and attempts to reduce density within a common workspace; It has provided…

When planning to collect employees’ personal data as part of the efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the organisation, the employers should consider also the data protection implications thereon. Such implications arise in particular when the envisaged processing entails the collection and use of special categories of data, such as health data (e.g., data resulting from screening or testing of employees’ health condition, information that an employee is or may be infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19).

When planning to collect employees’ personal data as part of the efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the organisation, the employers should consider also the data protection implications thereon. Such implications arise in particular when the envisaged processing entails the collection and use of special categories of data, such as health data (e.g., data resulting from screening or testing of employees’ health condition, information that an employee is or may be infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19).