Transparency duties and data protection in the context of labour relations

Abstract

The relationship between the transparency principle and data protection is bi­directional, both complement and limited each other. In this paper, how the company’s duty to inform workers about the processing of their personal data to determine the lawfulness of such processing is analysed. Moreover, the limits that data protection imposes in the field of information received by the wor­kers’ representation is also studied. It is necessary to prevent that their functions are not impeded. After this, how the transparency principle is applied to au­tomated decisions in the company is examined, especially its regulation in the GDPR. Finally, the right to explanation is advocated as a higher level than the right to information in the purposes of achieving transparency.