Employer not playing ball

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Extra 300 Driver

Original Poster:

5,281 posts

261 months

Wednesday 13th May 2009
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Hi all,

I have requested some information, e mails, which my company had written about me over the previous weeks - on a specific subject. I requested this under the Data Protection Act, as advised. To date they have not responded, despite hurry ups and further requests.

What are my rights here? I want to have a record of the information, which I have not seen before as I am leaving very soon.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

stig of the dump

31 posts

197 months

Wednesday 13th May 2009
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I have a similar battle at the moment, with out going into great detail google information commisioners office or ICO they govern all things data protection and freedom of information. There is a number to call and they will help you.

Mr POD

5,153 posts

207 months

Thursday 14th May 2009
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mark Thomas the political commedian did a great program about this where he asked various companies and governement departments what information they had on him.

It was most interesting. I've though of doing this, and seeing what emails have been going from my boss to his boss and back again, but I reckon they'd just delete them and then do a search. Anyway all the real plotting goes on by word of mouth.

russ_a

4,705 posts

226 months

Friday 15th May 2009
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Mr POD said:
mark Thomas the political commedian did a great program about this where he asked various companies and governement departments what information they had on him.

It was most interesting. I've though of doing this, and seeing what emails have been going from my boss to his boss and back again, but I reckon they'd just delete them and then do a search. Anyway all the real plotting goes on by word of mouth.
correct, never put anything in an email!!!

Jasandjules

71,087 posts

244 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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They have 40 days to comply.

After that, you can go to the IC to seek enforcement and/or the County Court.