COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROTECTION OF THE EMPLOYEE S PRIVATE LIFE AND PERSONAL DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖZH 5130 PROTECTION OF THE EMPLOYEE S PRIVATE LIFE AND PERSONAL DATA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Private Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ILKE GÜRSEL

Offered to

Private Law

Course Objective

It is aimed to give information about types of interventions by the employer in the private life and personal data of the employee during the employment relation and their compliances with law.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. To be able to determine the importance of protection of the private life and personal data of the employee in the working life.
2   2. To be able to evaluate the rules about the private life and personal data of the employee in terms of Turkish law.
3   3. To be able to examine the regulations regarding the private life and personal data of the employee in international law.
4   4. To be able to evaluate the interferences by the employer with the private life and personal data of the employee.
5   5. To be able to analyse the conflicts about this subject encountered in the courts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. General Information about the Right to Respect for Private Life
2 2. General Framework of the Right to Data Protection
3 3. Regulations on the Right to Respect for Private Life in International Documents
4 4. International Rules in the Right to Data Protection
5 5. Protection of Private Life in the Turkish Law
6 6. Regulations Regarding the Right to Data Protection in Respect of Turkish Legislation
7 7. General Outlines on the Protection of Private Life and Personal Data Specific to the Relation between the Employee and the Employer
8 8. Mid-term exam
9 9. Protection the Personal Data of the Employee
10 10. Collecting Information about the Applicant/Employee by Questions and Tests
11 11. Electronic Surveillance Applications in the Workplace
12 12. Body and Belonging Search in the Workplace and Interference with the Life Style and Behaviours of the Employee
13 13. Consequences of Unlawful Interventions by the Employer in in the Private Life and Personal Data of the Employee
14 14. Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ders Için Önerilen Kaynaklar: Main source: Ahmet Sevimli, Işçinin Özel Yaşamına Müdahalenin Sınırları, Legal, Istanbul, 2006; Zeki Okur, Iş Hukukunda Elektronik Gözetleme, Legal, Istanbul, 2011; Ilke Gürsel, Işçinin Kişisel Verilerinin Korunması Hakkı, Adalet Yayınevi, Ankara, 2016; Oğuz Şimşek, Anayasa Hukukunda Kişisel Verilerin Korunması, Beta, Istanbul, 2008; Elif Küzeci, Kişisel Verilerin Korunması, Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara, 2010.
Supplementary resources: The decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals and academic articles.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilke.kazikdas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13.00-15.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 33 33
Preparation for final exam 1 36 36
Final 1 5 5
Midterm 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

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