Employee information provided to ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining

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Dear Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission,

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

Advice, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission

 

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Regina Rutten, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission

Good afternoon Mr Smith,
 
I refer to your email below in which you request access to information
under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act).
 
I am the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) FOI
Contact Officer and your request for documents has been forwarded to me to
action.
 
Please note that ACNC staff are employed by the Australian Taxation Office
(ATO) and made available to the ACNC by the Commissioner of Taxation (s
120-5 of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012
(Cth)). Accordingly, the information you seek, if it exists, would be held
by the ATO and not the ACNC.
 
While I would ordinarily approach the ATO to ask if they would accept a
transfer of your request pursuant to s 16 of the FOI Act, I note from the
Right to Know website that you have already sent a request for these
documents to them. As such, I ask that you withdraw your request to the
ACNC.
 
Could you please advise, by return email, whether you agree to withdraw
your request?
 
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries.
 
Regards,
 
Regina Rutten
Legal Counsel |  Legal & Policy  |  Australian Charities and
Not-for-profits Commission    
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Smith [[2]mailto:[FOI #3072 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2017 7:51 PM
To: Advice
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Employee information provided to
ballot agents in Enterprise Agreement bargaining
 
Dear Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission,
 
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 Ms Rutten,

Thank you for email, and for the reminder that the ACNC is covered by the ATO.

I confirm this request is withdrawn.

Yours sincerely,

James Smith