DSAR data request

[mickw01]

I applied to my company for a data request .I was sent copies of emails and other data which have been sent. but two managers I had worked for never complied, when I queried this I was told that they no longer hold any information as the two managers in question where no longer my manager as I have moved teams and all correspondence had been deleted.

the company in question is a very big company, so data would have been securely backed up on the companies mail servers and they could be recovered

can I pursue the company to supply me with the emails i want to see?

I was also sent another employees medical history/sickness history which I think was put there to make my employment history look worse than it was ,as this person had been off for a long time due too accidents and operations i know the other person who the poor sickness record belongs too

when I queried the sickness records I was told that it must have been a clerical error by the person who completed the data request, but I think it was done maliciously by one of my previous managers as he has got it for me ....the person with the poor sickness record is now a manager too.

would this be grounds for a grievance and who should I aim the grievance at.

[ULA]

I am going to tag Peridot in regard to the issue of potentially information being withheld from your DSAR request.

In terms of the grievance my view is that no there are no grounds, it would in fact be the person whose medical records were disclosed that would have the grievance. I hope that you returned and/or deleted these immediately you ascertained that they were not yours.

[Peridot]

Hi Mickw1,

The e-mails you believe are missing, were they of a personal nature or just routine communications with your then managers? Have you asked whether the Company has a deletion protocol in respect of e-mails. I appreciate back ups are done however it would not be reasonable to expect every e-mail going back to the year dote to be retained. What timescale are you talking about here with regard to the dates of e-mails you believe should still exist?

Would there have been personal content in the e-mails or would they have been operational type content between manger and yourself?