Is it legal to monitoring staff in Ireland?
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Legal position
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Staff monitoring in Ireland is restricted by data protection law. The Irish DPC says CCTV use requires a clear purpose, legal basis, necessity, proportionality and transparency, and it has found that using security CCTV to monitor employee performance was incompatible with the original purpose.
Conditions
What would need to be true
The employer needs a lawful basis, a clearly defined purpose, proportionate use, secure retention rules and clear information for staff.
Exceptions
Known carve-outs or edge cases
A CCTV system set up for security or safety cannot simply be reused to monitor employee performance if that further use is incompatible with the original purpose.
Penalties
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Enforcement
How this may be enforced
The Data Protection Commission enforces workplace monitoring through GDPR purpose-limitation, fairness, security and transparency duties.
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Compare this activity in other countries
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Australia
Employee monitoring in Australia is not prohibited outright but an employer must follow applicable Australian and state or territory surveillance laws and any privacy obligations that apply to records created by monitoring.
Austria
Workplace monitoring in Austria is not a flat yes or no. Austria’s Data Protection Authority says photo and video recording needs a lawful basis, and labour-law rules require special treatment for control measures that affect human dignity.
Belgium
Employer monitoring in Belgium is not a free-for-all. The Belgian DPA says workplace surveillance tools can be intrusive and workplace camera monitoring is allowed only for limited purposes, with proportionality and worker information requirements.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina's data-protection authority says video surveillance is personal-data processing and must be necessary, proportionate and accountable. The authority has also published a case saying workplace surveillance without a legal basis is unlawful.
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