In a case brought by an employee after having been laid-off, the ‘Garante per la protezione dei dati personali’ (GPDP), the Italian data protection authority, has ruled that employees are entitled to full access to their files, including, in this specific case, the information that was contained in the report by a detective agency that had been commissioned to investigate the employee.
The GPDP intervened following a request by an employee who, after receiving a disciplinary warning that contained ‘specific references to extra-professional activities’ was unable to obtain full access to their employee file. The disciplinary warning eventually led to the employee’s employment termination. In response to the employee’s request for access to the information file, the employer, a public utility, informed the employee that the request was ‘too generic’ and that the employee should
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR