Protecția datelor cu caracter personal, drepturile și obligațiile salariaților în contextul crizei sanitare generate de pandemia Covid-19
Protection of Personal Data, Rights and Obligations of Employees in the Context of the Health Crisis Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Daniela Duță
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Sociology, Health and medicine and law, EU-Legislation, Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: Universul Juridic
Keywords: personal data protection; employee; rights and obligations of employees; Covid-19 pandemic; privacy;
Summary/Abstract: This study aims to present the changes to the rights and obligations of employees as a result of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The study follows the new regulations and legislative changes brought to the employees' rights at national level, such as: work from the employee's home, or from any other location agreed with the employer; telework, granting days off for parents to supervise their children, reducing working time, extending the validity of documents including collective labor agreements and related data processing. Since the state of emergency, economic operators have had to provide employees with an adequate level of protection through measures such as: providing logistical means for working from home or teleworking, where possible, measuring body temperature with appropriate means to check whether it exceeds or does not exceed a certain predefined level at the entrance to the operator's buildings. In the context of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the massive digitalization, new personal data were processed such as: place of work of the employee in the situation of work at home or telework, data on health, electronic signature, image, voice, calendar dates and times for online connection to virtual meetings and events, trainings conducted on various platforms. At the level of the European Union, the European Parliament adopted the Resolution of 21 January 2021 by which it addressed a series of recommendations to the European Commission on the need to regulate at the level of the member states the employee's right to disconnect. The pandemic accelerated the transformations and reconfigured the labor relations that had to be adapted to the new realities, bringing new particularities and associated risks.

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