Welcome to the next edition of our quarterly HR Privacy newsletter, designed to keep you updated with key cases, enforcement action, legal developments, trends and news relating to employment/HR data privacy matters, which is brought to you by the Baker McKenzie EMEA Employment and Compensation practice group.

This edition explores high-profile case-law decisions and enforcement action, new consultations, regulations, guidance and relevant news in the EU, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, South Africa and Spain markets. Highlights include a UK High Court decision looking at the relevance of motive in subject access requests, recent caselaw in Germany clarifying the requirements for when an award of compensation for non-financial damage will be awarded, a fine of EUR 120,000 being imposed on an employer in Italy for unlawful processing of biometric data to monitor office attendance, and an unfair dismissal finding in Spain where the employer relied on data acquired for a different purpose to dismiss the employee for lying about their professional experience during the recruitment process.

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Julia Wilson is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Employment & Compensation team in London. She advises senior legal and HR stakeholders on a range of employment and data protection matters.

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Christian focuses his practice on all aspects of employment law-related matters, particularly on mass dismissal & restructuring matters as well as individual local disputes on the hiring and dismissal of employees. He also advises companies on the compliant use of external workforce.