P60 sent to former employee

Tipsy McSwagger

So I have been notified by my employer that a former employee requested some documents and my P60 was sent to them by mistake. The notification was by email and they said it was a mistake. My company is probably the biggest company in the world and to make a mistake like this is a big shock tbh. Should I just write it off as a mistake or seek legal guidance?

ohnonotgmail

You could make a complaint to the data protection commissioner. I'm not sure what other legal action could be open to you. Have you suffered harm because of their mistake?

Tipsy McSwagger

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

You could make a complaint to the data protection commissioner. I'm not sure what other legal action could be open to you. Have you suffered harm because of their mistake?

No harm but my company has made such a massive deal over GDPR that I find it shocking they could send out such an important document like a P60 by mistake.

seamus

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

No harm but my company has made such a massive deal over GDPR that I find it shocking they could send out such an important document like a P60 by mistake.

It happens. The other employee could have had the same name as you or something. Or they could have been using employee ID numbers and someone transposed some digits when entering it into a system.

There aren't legal avenues open to you really unless you've suffered harm, but it would be no harm to raise a query with the data commissioner.

The company at the very least should have notified the data protection office, so they should have the incident on file.

spindex

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

So I have been notified by my employer that a former employee requested some documents and my P60 was sent to them by mistake. The notification was by email and they said it was a mistake. My company is probably the biggest company in the world and to make a mistake like this is a big shock tbh. Should I just write it off as a mistake or seek legal guidance?

What are you looking for as a result of this ? Compensation ?
Someone sacked ?
?

sbsquarepants

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Should I just write it off as a mistake or seek legal guidance?

The first one.

Shít happens sometimes, there's no harm done.

Have you never gotten a neighbours post, or an email that wasn't for you, a wrong number on your phone? People make mistakes.

Legal guidance - seriously!

AndrewJRenko

spindex wrote: »

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

So I have been notified by my employer that a former employee requested some documents and my P60 was sent to them by mistake. The notification was by email and they said it was a mistake. My company is probably the biggest company in the world and to make a mistake like this is a big shock tbh. Should I just write it off as a mistake or seek legal guidance?

What are you looking for as a result of this ? Compensation ?
Someone sacked ?
?

Maybe OP is looking for assurance that whatever process changes that are required to stop this happening again have been implemented.

When you're dealing with sensitive personal data, ah sure we made a mistake doesn't cut it.

ohnonotgmail

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Maybe OP is looking for assurance that whatever process changes that are required to stop this happening again have been implemented.

When you're dealing with sensitive personal data, ah sure we made a mistake doesn't cut it.

Hence the suggestion to complain to the Data Protection Commission.

Tipsy McSwagger

Not looking for any compensation at all. I will definitely contact the data protection commission, cheers all.