The audacity work have told me to bring along £10 and they will let me view my hr file!

[Madamecastafiore]

Aaaarrrgggghhhh.

ICO here is come.

Clearly they value their employees.

£10 to view it?! Or £10 to copy it?

Surely under data protection, you're allowed to view any file (free of charge) where data is held about you?

It's fairly standard procedure I'm afraid

10 quid just to view it.

Maybe that is to pay the lady to watch me for the hour slot I have been given.

Am going to reply to them with link to ICO saying that the 10 quid is for a coy and they can't charge me for viewing it and I don't want to view it, I want a copy, which I am entitled to.

I think it is £10 for all information they hold, so I would ask them for copies of all email correspondence (including archived data on back ups), CCTV, swipe card access logs, meeting minutes and support calls logged with internal IT.

Thanks trapper, I thought a bit audacious for them to charge me to view it.

Subject access request. Put it in writing and they need to respond in 40 days

Post-dated cheque?

We charged £10 for the subject access request where I worked. Payed for our time whilst we edited the file before giving to the employee!

Surely it shouldn't be edited?

Does the same info apply if you are requesting data held about your child?

I want a copy of my child's CAT (cognitive abilities tests) that all year 4s in the county do. When my DD1 did them and I asked for a copy, I was told that they don't give them out and I'd have to come in and view them in her assessment folder. It irked me but I didn't push it any further. I wish I had.

DD2 has now done them, she has a new teacher and the school has a new headteacher so I've written a letter requesting a copy of the test data. I really don't want to just have to look at it in a folder - it predicts her levels for year 6 and I would like to be able to refer back to it later.

Lots of schools in the county give out the sheets, my school included, so it's not that they shouldn't be sent home.

I await the school's answer... I wrote the letter on Friday but the teacher has been in and out all week so I haven't had a reply yet.

Am going to reply to them with link to ICO saying that the 10 quid is for a coy

The Data Protection Act says that, provided you pay the fee, they must communicate the data to you in an intelligible form. It doesn't say anything about copies. Of course, communicating it in an intelligible form normally means providing a copy. But they can charge a fee regardless of how the communicate the data to you.

Surely it shouldn't be edited?

If the documents contain personal information about other employees, for example, that will need to be removed from the version you see.

2kidsintow

If you are asking to see your daughter's answer sheet that may be classed as an examination script, in which case there is an exemption in the Data Protection Act that means they don't have to show it to you at all. If it is just results then yes, the same information applies.

Thanks. It is the results sheet I want to see, not the answers. Thanks.

wow that's amazing.

I saw mine from a company i worked with years ago. they co-erced me in to resigning but in reality sacked me. Years later I saw it and it said that I was of average intelligence and would be reliable but not brilliant (how the fuck they thought that the person interviewing me could tell that I don't know). I also saw the test they'd given me at interview and I got all of their spellings right (this was before spell check, and I got 17 out of ten of their maths questions right. So for them to write me off as 'average' made me so mad. And the said I was 'nervous'. Dickheads.

17 out of 20 at summerfuggle

I got the results today, no fuss. :) And no charge.