Covid-19 vaccination practices in the workplace and the comparison of data protection practices between the European Union and Turkey

The world has been dealing with a pandemic for almost two years. Since COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly, individuals have been asked to provide test results about not being infected. Test results and vaccination fall within the scope of personal data. To be more specific, these data are categorized as health data. The safety of health data throughout the pandemic needs to be ensured. There must be certain procedures to follow when people process health data. To secure the workplace, employers ask about the vaccination status of their employees. This paper focuses on the processing of vaccination status of employees in the workplace and whether employers can record the vaccination status of their employees and the terms under which they can do so. In this regard, processing vaccination data in the practices of United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland, Czech Republic, Italy, and Turkey will be evaluated.