There is a difference between looking at your personnel file and making an
SAR.
If I had to pay a tenner to see my personnel file I'd ensure that my
employer also had to go to the inconvenience of finding every other scrap of
personal data they had on me. Surely there will be people in your
organisation who will use this tactic and so your proposed regime may end up
causing you more trouble than the existing one.
Regards
Matthew Stephenson
Matthew Stephenson
Records Manager
Floor 10, Tower 1
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: 020 7955 6481
Fax: 020 7852 3646
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hodgetts, Jonathan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:20 PM
> To:
> Subject: Charging for Employee Subject Access requests
> Sensitivity: Confidential
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> My company is considering if to charge employees for Subject Access
> requests
> for viewing their own personnel files (hard copy in a relevant filing
> system) under the Data Protection Act 1998 and I would be interested to
> know
> what other organisations are proposing.
>
> I would be grateful if members of this group would share their own
> organisations policy in this area. Please do email me off line if you
> prefer and I will then publish the results to the whole group.
>
> In my own company, we would probably donate any £10 fees collected to
> charity anyway (we would not aim to make money from our own employees),
> but
> are drawn towards charging to minimise the number of access requests.
>
> Jonathan Hodgetts
> Information Security Manager
> The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited
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