Compassionate leave (FOI)

​Request

How many Civil Servants took over five days compassionate leave?

Response

Less than five Civil Servants took compassionate leave of over five days in 2019. This has been reported from data extracted directly from the system and will only include those recording a reason of compassionate leave.

As the number is very small Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied to protect the identity of individuals.

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.