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CCTV Location & The Law

  • 19-08-2019 11:04PM
    #1
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭


    Just looking for a little information with regards CCTV in Canteens.

    If a workplace has a shared spaced e.g Office & Canteen in 1 area.

    Is it lawful to have a camera in a canteen, also is there any laws that require employers to provide a place for staff to change outside of CCTV?

    Where does the law stand on this?


Comments

  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    Is it lawful to have a camera in a canteen, also is there any laws that require employers to provide a place for staff to change outside of CCTV?

    As long as there are signs up, pretty much anything goes. Obviously no camera in Bathroom or changing areas.


  • #3
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    As long as there are signs up, pretty much anything goes. Obviously no camera in Bathroom or changing areas.

    What if the office/canteen is the only changing area?


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,401 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    There's no general requirement on employers to provide a changing area at all - most jobs you just come in dressed for work.

    If the job requires special workwear that it wouldn't be appropriate to wear on your commute, then it's reasonable to expect the employer to provide changing facilities. If the changing area is the same space as the office and the canteen, then I doubt that's a reasonable provision of changing facilities, cameras or no cameras.


  • #5
    Vetch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 422 ✭✭Vetch


    The DPC issued new guidance on CCTV recently and there is some relevant info on pages 13-14 here https://www.dataprotection.ie/sites/default/files/uploads/2019-05/CCTV%20guidance%20data%20controllers_0.pdf.

    Employers should be able to justify the location of cameras and a lot depends on context ie if an office is just used by a person sitting quietly at a pc all day, it would be difficult to justify a camera being focused on them; however, if the office handled cash, it would be easier to justify.


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