Eaton ordered to provide Irish staff performance evaluation for US tax probe despite GDPR fears

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Sean Pollock

A US court has told multinational power management company Eaton that it must produce foreign employee performance evaluations – including for staff in Ireland – to the US tax authorities despite its concerns over breaching European data protection rules.

The US court’s decision is the latest development in a protracted row between Eaton, the Irish-headquartered US power management giant, and the IRS, the US tax collector.