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Global Pre-Employment Screening and Data Protection Law Toolkit
Practical Law Toolkit w-016-1899 (Approx. 5 pages)
Global Pre-Employment Screening and Data Protection Law Toolkit
by Practical Law Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
| Maintained • ExpandHong Kong - PRC, India, Malaysia...Mexico, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates |
This Toolkit includes country-specific resources to assist organizations with data protection law compliance when handling candidate personal data during pre-employment screening.
Employers that collect candidate personal data during pre-employment screening have obligations under data protection laws when handling that data. The legal frameworks and rules governing personal data vary by jurisdiction.
Among other things, different jurisdictions have varying requirements regarding:
- Identifying a legal basis for data processing.
- Providing candidates with a privacy notice.
- Obtaining candidate consent.
- Transferring candidate personal data to third parties and cross border.
- Outsourcing pre-employment screening.
- Prohibited types of pre-employment screening.
For an overview of these and other issues across multiple regions, see Practice Note, Global Issues in Employee Data Privacy: Overview and Global Employee and Workplace Privacy Toolkit.
This Toolkit includes country-specific Practice Notes that discuss these and other compliance issues employers face when conducting pre-employment screening in different jurisdictions. For a jurisdiction-neutral candidate privacy notice that addresses personal data collection during pre-employment screening, see Standard Document, Global Candidate Privacy Notice (Non-US). For EU-specific candidate privacy notices, see Standard Documents, Candidate Privacy Notice (GDPR).
For more on addressing these and other issues under US law, see US Employee Privacy Compliance Toolkit.