Some advice needed on data protection- quite sensitive

jonnygee2

Hi all just an update and quick question,

Letter went off and no reply,

She is due to start a new job on Monday, she did not have to give her previous employer as a reference on this, am I right in saying that her past employer cannot just make contact with her new ones to bad mouth her and mention the disciplinary?

It would be a breach of GDPR to give out any personal information at all as she has not given consent for them to do this and they are a third party.

As always that doesn't physically prevent them, it just means there could be consequences if they do.

[Deleted User]

Sorry, I don't have any advice...but wow, what some of these employers get away with is so unacceptable.

dlpfan2019

Thanks for the responses, they were what I thought

And yes its pretty bad, what makes it worse is it is a charity who have patients under there supervision so boast about tight GDPR etc

jonnygee2

And yes its pretty bad, what makes it worse is it is a charity who have patients under there supervision so boast about tight GDPR etc

That could actually be helpful to your friend. A small business might not care about the reporting of a GDPR breach, a charity is going to have a lot more reasons to be worried.