Interesting article related to this in the Guardian by Daniel Stilitz of 11kbw arguing that employers should be forced by law to disclose the pay of all workers (although I think he rather skates over the privacy issues to pursue an equalities argument):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/13/employers-inequality-pay-transparency?INTCMP=SRCH
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Sent: Friday 14 January 2011 09:28
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Subject: [data-protection] Release of personal data re senior officers salaries
Thanks to all who responded.
I have advised
1) I prefer not to release names against salary bands unless legally required to do so.
2) If we did release names against salary bands for senior officers, the ICO are very unlikely to take any sort of action because senior officer names, job titles and salaries are likely to be in the public domain anyway.
Steve
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From: Cotterill, Steve
Sent: 13 January 2011 10:06
To: 'Lynn Wyeth'; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [data-protection] Release of personal data
Thanks for your response.
I was more thinking along the lines of just because two items may be in the public domain, is it right from a DPA perspective to decide to link them together and publish them? ie,
1) Job titles and salaries for senior officers £50k - £150K are to be published by law.
2) Names of the Senior Officers are likely to be released to an FOI request.
Link these together and you are able publish the name and salary detail. This seems to be the ICO guidance in response to the 'senior salary transparency guidance'. Are there any issues you would look at from a data protection perspective apart fair processing notice etc?
Cheers
Steve
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