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Hi,
I work for company X. Obviously I have provided them the information they need as my employer. I trust that this information is held in confidence by HR even to the point my manager does not know much of my information.
However. They repeatedly send me on contract for American companies. These American companies, seemingly have no boundaries, and ask me for personal information.
I'm currently facing an onboarding form for company Y who want to treat me as their employee... I'm not. They are asking for:
My name, DOB, personal phone number, personal residence address, personal email address, education details and at least one emergency contact.
For the emergency contact they want their, name, address, home, work, mobile phone numbers and my relationship to them.
They also want my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account names.
This places me in a very difficult situation. I am expected to make this process smooth for my employer, but company Y is NOT my employer and they are NOT entitled to this level of detailed personal information. Company Y is a customer of my employer.
I have voiced this concern several times before. I have asked if my information will be used with GDPR guidelines or if it will "off shored" to the US. I have not been provided an answer.
I am also asked to consent to a background check with these companies and to be honest, I'm 90% those that don't ask for consent do it anyway.
I feel my employer is placing me in a difficult situation and I feel this is wrong of them. If I am to provided services to customers of my employer then ALL information provided to them should come THROUGH my employer and be subject to standard UK employement rights and GDPR etc. If further information is required for regulatory requirements of the project or customer that should be dealt with through my employer.
What do you think?
Thanks,
I work for company X. Obviously I have provided them the information they need as my employer. I trust that this information is held in confidence by HR even to the point my manager does not know much of my information.
However. They repeatedly send me on contract for American companies. These American companies, seemingly have no boundaries, and ask me for personal information.
I'm currently facing an onboarding form for company Y who want to treat me as their employee... I'm not. They are asking for:
My name, DOB, personal phone number, personal residence address, personal email address, education details and at least one emergency contact.
For the emergency contact they want their, name, address, home, work, mobile phone numbers and my relationship to them.
They also want my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account names.
This places me in a very difficult situation. I am expected to make this process smooth for my employer, but company Y is NOT my employer and they are NOT entitled to this level of detailed personal information. Company Y is a customer of my employer.
I have voiced this concern several times before. I have asked if my information will be used with GDPR guidelines or if it will "off shored" to the US. I have not been provided an answer.
I am also asked to consent to a background check with these companies and to be honest, I'm 90% those that don't ask for consent do it anyway.
I feel my employer is placing me in a difficult situation and I feel this is wrong of them. If I am to provided services to customers of my employer then ALL information provided to them should come THROUGH my employer and be subject to standard UK employement rights and GDPR etc. If further information is required for regulatory requirements of the project or customer that should be dealt with through my employer.
What do you think?
Thanks,
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