Eimear has extensive corporate employment law and data protection expertise, and supports HR managers and directors, senior executives and business owners through the challenges of employee investigations, disciplinary proceedings and workplace litigation together with day-to-day employment contractual and policy queries and strategic HR planning.
In the fifth of the series by Crowley Solicitors on data processing in the workplace, Eimear Boyle examines and clarifies a number of specific recurring themes in employee-related data protection matters.
What are the enforcement options open to the Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) for a breach of the GDPR and the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018? ⚓︎
Article 58 of the GDPR categorises the powers that the DPC has at their disposal into two types:
- Investigative powers; and
- Corrective powers.
Investigative powers include the extensive authority held by the DPC to conduct data protection audits, to access premises and command information from controllers and processors wherever necessary or required for the performance of its tasks.
Corrective action includes
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