Member States may, by law or by collective agreements, provide for more specific rules to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms in respect of the processing of employees' personal data in the employment context, in particular for the purposes of the recruitment, the performance of the contract of employment, including discharge of obligations laid down by law or by collective agreements, management, planning and organisation of work, equality and diversity in the workplace, health and safety at work, protection of employer's or customer's property and for the purposes of the exercise and enjoyment, on an individual or collective basis, of rights and benefits related to employment, and for the purpose of the termination of the employment relationship.
Féadfaidh na Ballstáit, leis an dlí nó le comhaontuithe comhchoiteanna, foráil a dhéanamh do rialacha níos sonraí chun a áirithiú go ndéanfar cearta agus saoirsí na bhfostaithe a chosaint i ndáil le próiseáil sonraí pearsanta ó thaobh na fostaíochta de, go háirithe chun na críocha seo a leanas: earcaíocht, feidhmiú an chonartha fostaíochta, lena n-áirítear comhlíonadh na n-oibleagáidí arna leagan síos de réir dlí nó comhaontuithe comhchoiteanna, bainistiú, pleanáil agus eagrú na hoibre, comhionannas agus éagsúlacht san ionad oibre, sláinte agus slándáil ag an obair, cosaint maoin an fhostóra nó an chustaiméara agus feidhmiú agus tairbhiú de cheart agus de sochair a bhaineann le fostaíocht, ar bhonn aonair nó comhchoiteann, agus chun críoch deireadh a chur leis an gcaidreamh fostaíochta.