CYPES grievance complaints (FOI)

Request

Relating to grievances submitted within Children, Young People, Education and Skills:

A

Over the past year from January 2020 to January 2021, how many grievances have been submitted by employees?

Out of the grievances received: 

a) How many have been internally investigated?

b) How many have been externally investigated?

c) How many of the internal investigations have been completed and outcome fed back to the complainant, including those who have left their employment?

d) How many of the external investigations have been completed and outcome fed back to the complainant, including those who have left their employment?

e) What has been the outcome of these grievances that have been completed, ie how many internal grievances have been upheld? How many external grievances have been upheld?

B

Have there been any disciplinary actions as a result of these grievances? if so, how many for 1) internal and 2) external?

Response

A and B

CYPES have received six grievances between January 2020 and January 2021.

Due to low levels of grievance cases, a further breakdown would result in individual cases being identifiable.

The Government of Jersey does not comment on individual contractual matters, this would breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, 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 2005.

(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[7]; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.[8]

(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[9] 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.[10]