Our Vice-Chancellor was compelled to release his salary details when he was at Murdoch University in Western Australia (see http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WAICmr/2001/1.html). I realise this is under FOI in a different country, but the decision of the WA Information Commissioner might be helpful.
Mary F. Liddell
Data Protection and Information Officer
Brunel University
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Subject: [data-protection] Salaries - Personal Information under FOI?
Hi all,
I am currently getting very confused with trying to understand the request for third party information under Section 40 of the FOI Act.
As from January 1st 2005 I am likely to receive a request under FOI wanting to know the Chief Executive's salary. This would request would be processed FOI but the Data Protection rules will apply.
The easy answer is to say salary details are personal information and not disclose, but I do not believe this is in the spirit of the FOI Act.
I could ask the Chief Executive if I can disclose this information (not sure what response I will get) and a Section 10 notice and thus a Public Interest Test only applies if not Data Protection Principles are not broken to start with.
Is this clear? Has anyone else thought on how they would deal with such requests next year?
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Steve
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