Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Dear Comcare,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June 2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for information I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a formal FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
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Dear Mr Smith,
Thank you for your email of 16 February 2017, seeking access under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act) to the following:
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external
organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all
Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for
enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June
2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For
example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email
address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only
after the 'meta-data'.
Your request has been assigned reference number 2017/1364 and you are
asked to cite that number in any communication you have with Comcare
concerning the request. Information on processing of your request is set
out below.
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Yours sincerely,
FOI Delegate
Freedom of Information
Phone: 1300 366 979
Email: [Comcare request email]
121 Marcus Clarke St, Canberra City, ACT 2600
GPO Box 9905, CANBERRA ACT 2601
-----Original Message-----
From: James Smith [mailto:[FOI #3088 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2017 7:51 PM
To: foi
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Employee information provided to
ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
Dear Comcare,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external
organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all
Enterprise Agreements put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for
enterprise agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June
2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For
example, employee name, employee identification number, employee email
address, etc. I exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only
after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for
information I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a
formal FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
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Dear Mr Smith,
Please find attached decision letter in response to your FOI request.
Kind regards,
FOI Delegate
Freedom of Information
121 Marcus Clarke St, Canberra City, ACT 2600
GPO Box 9905, Canberra, ACT 2601
P 02 6112 9680 | [1]www.comcare.gov.au
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attachments. If received in error, please notify the sender by return
email immediately, if possible, or [email address].
Comcare does not waive any confidentiality or privilege.
For information about how we handle personal information, please visit
www.comcare.gov.au/privacy or contact us on 1300 366 979 and request a
copy of our Privacy Policy.
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