States Employment Board email correspondence (FOI)

Request

At 12.21pm on Tuesday 7 December, a press statement was issued containing a public apology from the States Employment Board (SEB) regarding an instance of 'unintentional discrimination' during a recruitment process.

A

Please provide all emails sent or received by members of the SEB concerning this complaint and its resolution.

B

Please provide this for the 12 months prior to Tuesday 7 December.

Response

A and B

Please find attached one email provided relating to the complaint. Relevant sections of the email have been redacted as to not personally identify the individual. Attached to this email was the public statement which was issued publicly.

Email

Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.

Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – (a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and (b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.