Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-03-01
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Frances Black (IND), Industrial and Commercial Panel

Amendment No. 38 seeks to include, as part of the proposed amendments to section 29 of the principal Act, a provision that where records of medical leave are kept, as well as the three-year limit for the retention of such records, they shall be destroyed when employment ceases, whichever occurs earlier. As such records are likely to contain sensitive information, it is important from a data protection viewpoint that sensitive information on former employees is not retained.
Amendment No. 39 seeks to include, as part of the proposed amendments to section 29 of the principal Act, that where records of approved flexible working arrangements are kept, as well as the three-year limit for the retention of such records, they shall be destroyed when employment ceases. This amendment has been tabled for the same data protection-related reasons as amendment No. 38.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-01