Laws on Protection of Personal Information and Human Resource Management (Part 1)

Abstract

Laws on protection of personal information and human resource management are related and interrelated insofar as human resource management requires the collection, use, and disclosure of job applicant/employee/personnel personal information. Prescribing rights of personal information owner in different cases, companies must strictly comply with the law on personal data protection.

This article aims to portray companies as data controllers. In addition to their duty to protect personal information in accordance with the law on protecting personal information, they are also obliged to process requests to exercise rights of personal data subjects as required by law. Otherwise, they may risk civil liability as well as criminal or administrative penalties, as the case may be.