Grounds to share health status info from the Privacy Commissioner

Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Privacy Commissioner

Response to this request is long overdue. By law Privacy Commissioner should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.

From: Erika Whittome

Dear Privacy Commissioner,
This website https://www.privacy.org.nz/resources-2/p... of yours says that :

"Employers that have a legitimate need to know an employee’s vaccination status "

Would you please share the minutes, emails and any correspondence and policy documents for the decision to publish the above saying that an employer has a legitimate reason to ask health status of a worker

Please include any legal discussions and legal advice, and also refer to the specific sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 as the basis for this statement.....especially any discussions around section 168 (4) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

I would like all the memos, correspondence and meeting minutes including legal advice that occurred prior to this advice being published on your website in 2021.

Please share any inter agency correspondence regarding the decision for this eg with Worksafe, MBIE, the MoH, Crown Law etc

In Sep 2021, this statement or similar was nowhere on the same "Covid" webpage (https://web.archive.org/web/202009010549...)

So I assume this "covid" advice came about later in 2021 or early 2022 on the Privacy Commision's webpage.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Tçnâ koe

 

Please find attached the Privacy Commissioner’s response to your official
information response and enclosure.

 

 

Aku mihi

 

Sharyn Leonard

Executive Assistant (Legal) | Kaiâwhina Mâtâmua, Taha Ture

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner  Te Mana Mâtâpono Matatapu
PO Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear OIA,
You have shared a few emails however the following information is not in your response : minutes and any correspondence and policy documents

Would you please share the correspondence and grounds for coming up with your policy.

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear OIA,
You have not shared the memos and discussions that took place to arrive at all your published advice on this topic

There’s no correspondence regarding section 168 (4) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 either, yet you list health and safety in a workplace in your response letter.

I have made a complaint to the ombudsman about the lack of information supplied.

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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M Bell left an annotation ()

Another good OIA request Erika. There is so much circumstantial evidence of regulatory capture with the way that the different acts (privacy, human rights, bill of rights etc) have been so flippantly disregarded, that all of these agencies are going to have to be VERY proactively transparent in proving they are not part of the perpetration of this blatant crime that has been committed against the NZ people. Based on what I have seen, the office of the ombudsman is also not above suspicion of partisanship.

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Kia ora

 

This is to acknowledge receipt.  Thank you for letting us know.

 

 

Aku mihi

 

Sharyn Leonard

Executive Assistant (Legal) | Kaiāwhina Mātāmua, Taha Ture

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner  Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu

PO Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143

privacy.org.nz 

 

NZBN 9429041913161

 

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