Hiring the right employees for your organisation, maintaining their records, and conducting disciplinary actions that may lead to firing them: these are examples of the human resource (HR) department’s work that heavily relies on personal data. Before the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (PDPA), it is the organisation that mainly dictates what personal data of a candidate or an employee to collect and how to collect and use it.
After the PDPA becomes fully effective on 1 June 2022, the organisation should rethink such procedures. The PDPA aims to give back to your employees control over their personal data given to your organisation. Therefore, it sets out an EU-like level of protection for the data subjects (i.e. the employees), and it will change the way HR works.
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