Data protection in the field of labor relations in Spain

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impact on industrial relations of the recognition of the right to personal data protection, in the light of European and Spanish legislation. It makes especially an attempt to mark the differences between the right to privacy and the most restricted of the intimate sphere. Likewise, it tries to highlight the main challenges and singularities of the protection of the sphere of the private with respect to the worker: it possible extension to self-employed worker, the indirect limitations derived from the recognition of the right to the protection of personal data of the employer, the limited space of labour consent and the requirement in this matter of employer control powers.