Employment Tribunals Service: Data Protection

(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to ensure that the Employment Tribunal decisions database protects the data privacy rights of claimants.


Answered by
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Paul Scully
This question was answered on 28th February 2022

Personal data is exempt from the provisions of GDPR where it is required to be disclosed by law. Regulation 14(1) of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations requires the Lord Chancellor to maintain a public register of all decisions issued by Employment Tribunals. As a result, the online register of employment tribunal decisions is exempt from the provisions of GDPR.

Employment Tribunals may make an order that the identities of specified parties in proceedings should not be disclosed to the public, by anonymisation or otherwise, in any documents entered on the register.

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