Fairness at Work process characteristics breakdown: FOI release

Information requested

Your request followed an earlier request about the Scottish Government’s Fairness at Work process (FOI/19/01911).

In your request, you asked for information about ‘the age, gender, disability, grade, qualification held length of service of both the complainant(s) and the respondent(s) and of course the outcome’. 

Response

You have asked for information about Scottish Government employees and the Scottish Government’s Fairness at Work process.  This response therefore covers staff who are employed by the Scottish Government and who were either the respondent or the complainant in the Fairness at Work process.

While our aim is to provide information wherever possible, I am unable to provide all the information you have requested because an exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies.  That exemption applies because the information is personal data of a third party/parties, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Regulation 2016/679 and section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Our response to your request is set out at the Annex.

Age	Headcount
20-29	*
30-39	*
40-49	15
50-54	13
55-59	8
60-64	7
65+	*

Gender
Female	30
Male	24

Disability Status
Disabled	9
Not disabled	28
Unknown	17

Grade
A3	*
A4	*
B1	*
B2	6
B3	13
C1	10
C2	5
C3	*
NA	6
SCS	*

Length of Service
0 to 5 years	9
6 to 10 years	9
11 to 15 years	12
16 to 20 years	11
21 to 30 years	8
more than 30 years	5
All	54

To protect personal data, numbers of less than 5 are shown with *.

Outcomes
Complaint not upheld	16
Other	17

Due to the small numbers and to protect personal data, it is not possible to break down the outcomes into more specific categories. However “other” could include; informal resolution, disciplinary action, withdrawal of complaint.  

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