Confidential employment reference exemption in DPBill drafted so that references are no longer available to employees
13 May 2018
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The Data Protection Bill (engaged in Parliamentary ping-pong) contains an exemption that allows confidential employment references to be kept secret in all circumstances; this exemption has not been discussed, debated or challenged. The exemption thus raises the spectre that an employer will be able to give a confidential reference about an employee where the employee is ignorant of the reference and has no right of access to check the accuracy of the reference. The exemption exists in a non-virulent form
