We are delighted to announce that DiPLab PhD researcher Thomas Le Bonniec contributed the France country analysis to a significant new report on worker data rights under the GDPR, published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Future of Work programme and AK Vorarlberg. Read the full report: Worker Data Rights under the GDPR and Beyond: Enforcement and Legal Mobilisation Across the EU Featuring contributions from leading national experts across Europe, the report presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of how workers’ data protection rights are enforced—and mobilized—across 10 EU Member States. It arrives at a critical juncture for European digital labor governance, as the EU navigates the Digital Omnibus, the Quality Jobs Act, and ongoing debates around a potential Directive on Algorithmic Management. The comparative analysis reveals several crucial insights: * Limited and fragmented enforcement: Workplace GDPR enforcement remains uneven across the EU, affecting both traditional data protection issues and emerging challenges related to algorithmic management. * Focus on traditional monitoring: Most enforcement cases still concern conventional forms of workplace surveillance—CCTV, email monitoring, GPS tracking—while data-intensive managerial practices, including algorithmic management systems, often remain under-enforced. However, promising enforcement initiatives are beginning to emerge in select Member States. * Underutilized collective mechanisms: Workers’ representatives could play a significantly stronger role in data protection, but existing mechanisms—including Article 80 GDPR—remain insufficient, inconsistently implemented across countries, or practically unused in practice. * Need for EU harmonization: The report emphasizes the urgent need for clearer EU-level harmonization and guidance on GDPR implementation and enforcement, more consistent reporting procedures and practices among Data Protection Authorities, preservation of the right of access under Article 15 GDPR (currently at risk under the Digital Omnibus proposal), and strengthening of collective data-protection rights in the workplace.