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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.\n2. <a id=\"p-2\"></a>Those rules shall include suitable and specific measures to safeguard the data subject's human dignity, legitimate interests and fundamental rights, with particular regard to the transparency of processing, the transfer of personal data within a [group of undertakings](https://www.headlesslaw.com/definitions/gdpr/group-of-undertakings), or a group of enterprises engaged in a joint economic activity and monitoring systems at the work place.\n3. <a id=\"p-3\"></a>Each Member State shall notify to the Commission those provisions of its law which it adopts pursuant to paragraph 1, by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them.\n\n***\n\n[Chapter IX — Provisions relating to specific processing situations](../chapters/ix.md) · [← Article 87](87.md) · [Article 89 →](89.md)\n"}