Worker Privacy Notice (update 2023 table version) - Appendix to Worker Privacy Notice of Queen Margaret University

Appendix to Worker Privacy Notice of Queen Margaret University

Data marked * in the table below is ‘special categories of personal information’ or might disclose such information.

We must have additional legal grounds for processing special categories of personal information – these are listed in the middle column of the table.

Reason for processing your personal information

Legal basis for processing, and legitimate interest (where applicable)

Your personal information

Make a decision about your recruitment or appointment

Determine the terms on which you work for us, and advise you of these

To enter or carry out the contract To comply with a legal obligation For our legitimate interests:

  • to select suitable employees, workers and contractors

*For special categories of information: For legitimate public interest

  • Personal contact details (including name, address, email, telephone number)

  • Your application form, CV and interview notes

  • References and details of previous employers

  • Professional memberships and qualifications

  • Copy of your driving licence, where applicable

  • Offer letter, your contract with us

  • Work location

  • Start date

  • Unspent criminal convictions and offences*

Check you are legally entitled to work in the UK

To enter or carry out the contract

To comply with a legal obligation

  • Personal contact details

  • Documentation confirming your right to work in the UK

Contact you


Administer our contract with you


Ensure compliance with the terms of your contract

To enter or carry out the contract
To comply with a legal obligation


*For special categories of information:

  • Personal contact details

  • Work location

  • Offer letter and your contract with us

  • Start date

  • Bank account details

Provide and process payments and benefits to you (including complying with pension auto- enrolment obligations, liaising with your pension provider and determining pension eligibility)

If applicable, deduct tax and national insurance

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • Payroll and wage records, compensation history, salary and benefits details, including pension and bonus details

  • Tax and national insurance details, including national insurance number

  • Absence records (excluding data disclosing sickness and health information)

  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records

  • Holiday records

  • Information and correspondence regarding pregnancy, birth, maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parental leave, shared parental leave and time off for dependants*

  • Age and date of birth

Business management and planning, including accounting or auditing

Manage performance and conduct

Make decisions about salary and compensation

Conduct disciplinary and grievance proceedings

Assess qualifications and suitability for a job or task, including promotion decisions

Manage flexible working applications

Make decisions about continued employment or engagement

To carry out the contract
To comply with a legal obligation

For our legitimate interests:

  • Business management
  • Workforce planning
  • Ensure a suitable workforce
  • Ensure compliance with our policies and procedures

*For special categories of information:

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • To review equality of opportunity or treatment
  • Personal contact details
  • Work location
  • Offer letter and your contract with us
  • Start date
  • Payroll and wage records, compensation history, salary and benefits details, including pension and bonus details
  • Absence records
  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records
  • Holiday records
  • Information and correspondence regarding pregnancy, birth, maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parental leave, shared parental leave and time off for dependants*
  • Details of job titles and duties, work history, performance and appraisal records
  • Age and date of birth
  • Information and correspondence regarding flexible working applications
  • Professional memberships and qualifications

Make arrangements for the termination of our working relationship

 
  • Training records
  • Information and correspondence relating to disciplinary and grievance investigations and proceedings
  • Information confirming you have read and understood our policies and procedures (HR Induction Checklist)
  • Information about your use of our information and communication systems, and emails passing through our systems
  • Redundancy information, including pooling data, selection matrixes, consultation notes, correspondence
  • Marriage or civil partnership status*
  • Gender
  • Information on gender reassignment*
  • Data revealing race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation*
  • Trade union membership*
  • Criminal convictions and offences (including alleged offences in case of position which meet the definition of regulated work and therefore require PVG)*

Manage sickness absence Assess your fitness to work

Consider disability status and reasonable adjustments for disabled workers

To carry out the contract
To comply with a legal obligation For our legitimate interests:

  • Business management
  • Workforce planning
  • Ensure a suitable workforce
  • Ensure compliance with our policies and procedures

    *For special categories of information:

  • Personal contact details
  • Work location
  • Start date
  • Offer letter and your contract with us
  • Payroll and wage records, compensation history, salary and benefits details, including pension and bonus details
  • Absence records
  • Health data and sickness records, including disability information*
  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records
  • Holiday records
  • Information and correspondence regarding pregnancy, birth and maternity leave*

 

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • For the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, or for the assessment of your working capacity
  • To review equality of opportunity or treatment
  • Information and correspondence regarding breastfeeding*
  • Information and correspondence relating to disciplinary and grievance investigations and proceedings
  • Information confirming you have read and understood our policies and procedures (HR Induction Checklist)
  • Details of job titles and duties, work history, performance and appraisal records

Manage requests for time off work, including but not limited to time off for:

  • Antenatal appointments;
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and / or shared parental leave
  • Time off for dependants
  • Trade union duties
  • Bereavement
  • Jury service
  • Emergency leave / Carer’s leave

To carry out the contract
To comply with a legal obligation For our legitimate interests:

  • Business management
  • Workforce planning
  • Ensure compliance with our
  • policies and procedures

    *For special categories of information:

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • Personal contact details
  • Start date
  • Offer letter and your contract with us
  • Work location
  • Absence records
  • Information and correspondence regarding pregnancy, birth, maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parental leave, shared parental leave and time off for dependants*
  • Dependants*
  • Trade union membership*

Carry out education, training and development

For our legitimate interests:

  • Business management
  • Workforce planning
  • Ensure a suitable workforce
  • Ensure compliance with our policies and procedures
  • Personal contact details
  • Work location
  • Start date
  • Absence records
  • Details of job titles and duties, work history, performance and appraisal records
  • Professional memberships and qualifications
  • Training records

Comply with gender pay gap reporting obligations

To comply with a legal obligation
*For special categories of information:

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • Gender
  • Payroll and wage records, compensation history, salary and benefits details, including pension and bonus details
  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records
  • Absence records
  • Information and correspondence regarding pregnancy, birth, maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parental leave, shared parental leave and time off for dependants*

Monitor your use of our IT and communications systems

For our legitimate interests:

  • Ensure compliance with our policies and procedures
  • Protect our business information
  • Ensure compliance with our confidentiality obligations to clients
  • Ensure network and information security, including checking for viruses, preventing unauthorised access to our information and communication systems, preventing malicious software distribution, or to find or retrieve lost messages
  • Service the needs of customers and clients
  • Your name
  • Work location
  • Information about your use of our information and communication systems, and emails passing through our systems
  • Correspondence to and from you (electronic or otherwise) and telephone voicemail messages during times when you are absent from the workplace

Prevent and detect crime and ensure a secure work environment

For our legitimate interests

  • Verify the identity of individuals accessing our premises
  • Prevent and detect theft
  • Your name
  • Work location
  • CCTV images

Carry out equal opportunities monitoring

For our legitimate interests:

  • To review equality of opportunity or treatment

*For special categories of information:

  • To review equality of opportunity or treatment
  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • Health data, including disability information*
  • Information regarding pregnancy and maternity*
  • Age and date of birth
  • Marriage or civil partnership status*
  • Gender
  • Information on gender reassignment*
  • Data revealing race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation*

Comply with health and safety obligations

To comply with a legal obligation
*For special categories of information:

  • To exercise or perform employment law rights or obligations
  • For the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, or for the assessment of your working capacity
  • Your name
  • Health data and sickness records, including disability information*
  • Accident records
  • Training records
  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records
  • Information regarding pregnancy and maternity*
  • Information and correspondence regarding breastfeeding*

Maintain records of your working time and holidays,

To carry out the contract
To comply with a legal obligation For our legitimate interests:

  • Business management
  • Workforce planning
  • Your name
  • Hours worked, overtime, shift records
  • Holiday records

Inform your contacts in the event of sickness, accident or other emergency

For the legitimate interests of the emergency contacts you have notified to us:

  • To be informed in the event of sickness, accident or other emergency
  • Your name
  • Work location
  • Emergency contact details

Protect your vital interests or those of another person (in exceptional circumstances, such as a medical emergency)

To protect your vital interests or those of another person

*For special categories of information:

  • To protect the vital interests of you or another person, if you are incapable of giving consent
  • Personal contact details
  • Work location
  • Accident records
  • Health data and sickness records, including disability information*
  • Emergency contact details

For business promotion

For our legitimate interests:

  • Business promotion and marketing of our services
  • Your name
  • Work location
  • Professional memberships and qualifications

Collect information regarding your reasons for leaving our business

For our legitimate interests:

  • To understand employee and worker attrition rates
  • Your name
  • Work location
  • Offer letter, your contract with us
  • Start date
  • Details of job titles and duties, work history
  • Information from exit interviews

To provide a reference regarding you

To comply with a legal obligation

  • Your name
  • Work location
  • Start date
  • End date
  • Details of job titles and duties, work history
  • Final salary
  • Reason for leaving

Submission of impact case study to support the University’s submission to REF

Evidence to support and corroborate impact of academic research beyond academia.

Data relating to staff centre membership and REF status

For our legitimate interest:
To ensure optimal submission to REF

Data relating to impact of research – the more detail we can provide here the better

Name and address/new employer address/role

Dates when involved in the underpinning research or receipt/benefactor of impact.

To comply with our statutory obligation to return data to HESA

For our legitimate interest,

To meet our obligation for our annual statistical staff return