Employee Privacy Essentials for HR and Payroll Professionals

Overview: This session helps Payroll and HR professionals understand and apply privacy principles across the employee data life cycle. Participants understand their compliance role, and key obligations for collecting, using, and protecting employee information. 
 ● Introduction to Employee Privacy Laws: This section defines privacy obligations and applicable laws and introduces the three lines of defense model, highlighting the Payroll Professional’s role in frontline compliance and their collaboration with the Privacy Office. 
 ● Employee Personal Information Life Cycle: This section covers privacy requirements at every stage of employment—from candidate data collection to post-employment retention. Participants learn how to manage, store, and dispose of personal information responsibly throughout the employee journey. 
 ● Processing Employee Personal Information: Participants dive into key privacy principles, including transparency, purpose identification, consent, data minimization, incident and international data transfer management and rights of individuals. 
 ● Privacy impact Assessment case studies: Participants learn how to assess and mitigate risks using privacy impact assessments in case studies.