To all,
I am researching into this field as part of my PhD project. I discussed the
Employee/Employer Code of Practice with one of the Officers at the OIC last
month.
As most of you will be aware, the Code of Practice will be released in 4
discrete sections covering:
- recruitment and selection;
- general records maintenance;
- monitoring;
- testing.
The idea is to produce 4 workable documents with legal obligations placed on
one side against good practice. I believe there will also be a "balance
document" - basically Part II of the current draft CoP - which will explain the
Act and the 8 Principles in greater detail.
As Peter states, the final Code was due to be out beginning of September.
However, due to "delays in the Office", the OIC is now aiming to have the first
section out by 30 November; general records management ideally by end of
December; monitoring in January; and workplace testing by the end of the
financial year (March/April). Obviously, all this could change - the deadlines
are by no means set in stone!
However, what was stressed by the OIC is that the Code is an interpretation of
the law. The Act has been in place since March 2000, and organisations have
know about it since 1998. Therefore, the Code does not represent new legal
obligations - it merely reaffirms the existing law.
I would be interested if anyone has heard anything different about the
deadlines or format of the Code. Also I would be interested in people's views
on the value of CoPs in this field. Perhaps surprisingly, the UK was one of
the first Member States - with the Dutch, I am told - to produce such a draft
Code. The EU Data Protection Working Party produced a draft document "on the
processing of personal data in the employment context" last month with
considerable input from the UK's OIC.
Cheers
Adam Warren
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Y'all,
Anyone on list got any news re: OIC employee/employer CoP on Recruitment which
was due "Early Autumn"? (Nothing on OIC Website)
Peter
Peter Wilson
Data Protection Officer
University of Paisley
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