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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Aku mihi
Sharyn Leonard
Executive Assistant (Legal) | Kaiâwhina Mâtâmua, Taha Ture
Office of the Privacy Commissioner Te Mana Mâtâpono Matatapu
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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
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
From: OIA
Privacy Commissioner
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #26617 email]>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:26 AM
To: OIA <[Privacy Commissioner request email]>
Subject: Re: Official information request
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
-----Original Message-----
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
privacy.org.nz
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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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