Current issues of international legal regulation of the protection of personal data of employees

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of protecting personal data of employees from the beginning of submitting their resumes as a job seeker to their dismissal. The authors of the article analyzed and considered the regulation of this issue in the General Regulation of Personal Data Protection. During the study of the topic of the article, the methods of structural analysis and synthesis were used to divide the received information into separate structural units and systematically combine various aspects of the information into a single structured system of presenting information regarding the features that were initiated directly by the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data. Special attention was also paid to the legislation of Ukraine on the protection of personal data of employees. The topic of protecting employees' personal data is relevant and timely, especially in the era of digital transformation and the growing use of technology in work processes. On the one hand, the increased use of digital tools makes the work of employees easier and faster, but it also leads to an increase in the amount of personal data that is collected and processed by the employer's company. This can become a problem for the privacy of employees who have the right to protect their personal data. On the other hand, large companies can be the target of hacker attacks that aim to steal the personal data of employees and lead to serious consequences such as the theft of identity data, financial data and other sensitive data. The authors of the article concluded about the need to introduce a separate independent institution that will act as a guarantor of personal data security.
 In order to systematize and efficiently process the personal information of employees, in the conditions of globalization processes, employers or employees of the personnel department regularly use applications, programs, websites with the ability to process data arrays, including personal data of employees. Therefore, the use of modern technologies can cause considerable harm to the employee. The authors of the article investigate the mechanism of how to protect data and the regulation of the protection of this data, both from the practical application and the legal regulation of this issue.