The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (Cap 440) regulate the processing of personal data whether held electronically or in manual form. The Department of Industrial and Employment Relations is set to fully comply with the Data Protection Principles as set out in such data protection legislation.
Purposes for collecting data
The Department of Industrial and Employment Relations collects and processes information to carry out its obligations in accordance with present legislation. All data is collected and processed in accordance with Data Protection Legislation and the Employment and Industrial Relations Act and its subsidiary legislations.
Recipients
of data
Personal Information is accessed by the employees
who are assigned to carry out the functions of the Department
of Industrial and Employment Relations. Personal Data will be disclosed to
the Data Protection Officer. Disclosure can also be made to third parties
but only
as authorized by law.
Your
rights
You are entitled to know, free of charge,
what type of information the Department of Industrial
and Employment Relations holds and processes about you and why,
who has access to it, how it is held and kept up to date, for how long it is
kept, and what the Unit is doing to comply with data
protection
legislation.
The Data Protection Act, the GDPR, and
any other related legislation, establish a formal procedure for dealing with
data subject access requests. All data subjects have the right to access any
personal information kept about them by the Department
of Industrial and Employment Relations, either on computer or in manual files.
Requests for access to personal information by data subjects are to be made in
writing and posted to the Data Controller of the Department
of Industrial and Employment Relations. Your identification details, such as ID
number, name and surname and address are to be submitted with the request. In
case we encounter identification difficulties, you may be required to present
an identification document.
The Department of
Industrial and Employment Relations aims to comply as quickly as possible
with requests to access personal information whilst ensuring that it is provided
within a reasonable timeframe; not later than one
month from
the receipt of such request, unless there is good reason for delay. When a
request for access cannot be met within a reasonable timeframe, the reason will
be explained in writing to the data subject who is making the request. Should
there be any data breaches, the data subject will be informed accordingly.
All data subjects have the right to request
that their information is amended, erased or not used in the event that the
data results to be incorrect.
In
case you are not satisfied with the outcome of your access request,
you may refer a complaint to the Information and Data Protection Commissioner,
whose contact details are provided below.
The Data Controller is the Director General, Employment
and Industrial Relations who may be contacted at:
Address:
109,121 Melita Street, Valletta, VLT1121
Address:
109,121 Melita Street, Valletta, VLT1121
The
Information and Data Protection Commissioner
Address:
The Information and Data Protection Commissioner may be contacted at: