The Next HR Data Protection Challenge: What U.S. Multinational Employers Must Do To Prepare for the European Union’s Impending General Data Protection Regulation

With summer holidays over and only eight months remaining in the two-year enforcement grace period, U.S. multinational employers and their European Union (EU) subsidiaries have little time to spare before starting to address compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or the “Regulation”), the EU’s new data protection framework. By May 25, 2018, the corporate group will need to implement new policies, procedures, and practices to address the GDPR’s many new requirements for handling EU employees’ personal data.