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According to the Supreme Court, the employer had discharged the reversed burden of proof in a case concerning a physical therapist who was dismissed shortly after her return from maternity leave.

The Data Protection Agency recently completed five inspections focused on employers’ duty to provide information when using control measures towards employees.

The Government and the social partners recently agreed to establish a new temporary work distribution scheme in order to prevent dismissals.

Political agreement has been reached on extension of the period of sickness benefits for employees who are either at higher risk of Covid-19 infection or are relatives of a person in the higher risk group.

Under the GDPR, a data controller must provide a data subject with access to all personal data which the data controller processes about him or her, if the data subject requests it. However, the data controller may refuse to act on such a request if, for example, the scope of the request for access is excessive.

The Data Protection Agency recently issued serious criticism of an employer who did not respond adequately after receiving a deletion request relating to video content from a former employee.