Privacy
Here at Recruitment Edge we take your privacy seriously and all personal and sensitive information collected whilst assisting you in your search for work is treated with utmost confidentiality.
CONSENT TO COLLECT AND USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about you. It may range from the very sensitive (eg. medical history or condition) to the everyday (eg. address and phone number). It would include the opinions of others about your work performance (whether true or not), your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results and other information obtained by us in connection with your possible work placements. Personal information includes sensitive information.
Type of Personal Information Held
Personal information that we collect and hold usually falls into the following categories:
* Candidate information submitted and obtained from the candidate and other
sources in connection with applications for work;
* Work performance information;
* Information about incidents in the workplace;
* Staff information;
* Information submitted and obtained in relation to absences from work due to
leave, illness or other causes;
* Information about clients regarding business contacts and past business
dealings;
* Information about potential clients where marketing is being undertaken.
Purpose for Which Recruitment Edge Holds Personal Information
We primarily hold personal information for the following purposes:
* Permanent and temporary recruitment;
* Staff management;
* Training;
* Administration and accounting;
* Client and business relationship management;
* Marketing.
What is Sensitive Information?
Sensitive information is a special category of personal information. It is information or opinion about your:
* Racial or ethnic origin;
* Political opinion;
* Membership of a political association or religious beliefs, affiliations or
philosophical beliefs;
* Membership of a professional or trade association or membership of a trade
union;
* Sexual preferences or practices;
* Criminal record
* Health or disability (at any time);
* Expressed wishes about the future provision of health services.
It includes personal information collected to provide a health service. Sensitive information can, in most cases, only be disclosed with your consent.
Who will be collecting your personal and sensitive information?
Your personal and sensitive information will be collected by Recruitment Edge for its own use in connection with your work placements.
How will your personal and sensitive information be collected?
Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you directly when you fill out and submit one of our registration forms or any other information in connection with your application to us for registration.
Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when:
* We receive any reference about you;
* We receive results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work
colleagues, professional associations or registration body;
* We receive the results of any competency or medical test;
* We receive performance feedback (whether positive or negative);
* We receive any complaint from or about you in the workplace;
* We receive any information about a workplace accident in which you are involved;
* We receive any information about any insurance investigation, litigation,
registration or professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry
in which you are involved;
* You provide us with any additional information about you;
How will your personal and sensitive information be used?
Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with:
* Your actual or possible work placement;
* Your performance appraisals;
* Our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
* Any test or assessment (including medical tests and assessments) that you
might be required to undergo;
* Our identification of your training needs;
* Any workplace rehabilitation;
* Our management of any complaint, investigation or inquiry in which you are
involved;
* Any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal or
sensitive information.
Who may your personal and sensitive information be disclosed to?
Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to:
* Potential and actual employers and clients of Recruitment Edge;
* Referees;
* Our insurers;
* A professional association or registration body that has a proper interest in the
disclosure of your personal and sensitive information;
* A workers compensation body;
What if you do not provide us with the information we seek?
If you do not give us the information we seek:
* We may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you;
* We may be limited in our ability to place you in work;
Can you gain access to your information to correct it if it is wrong?
Subject to some exceptions which are set out in the National Privacy Principles (Principle 6 – Access and Correction), you have a right to see and have a copy of personal and sensitive information about you that we hold.
If you are able to establish that personal or sensitive information that we hold about you is not accurate, complete and up to date, we will take reasonable steps to correct it so that it is accurate, complete and up to date.
If we are unable to agree that personal or sensitive information that we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date, you may ask us to place with the information a statement by you that claims that particular information is not accurate, complete and up to date.
If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction, you should contact our privacy coordinator, Tania Kapell.
In some cases we may impose a charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information. We will not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.
What are your rights as a candidate?
That the employment placement service must not charge a job seeker a fee for the purpose of finding the job seeker employment;
An employment placement service must not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct (such as advertising a position as being available when the agency knows no such position exists or knowingly giving misleading information to a job seeker about the nature of a position); and
If a job seeker believes that an employment placement service has acted inappropriately, the job seeker may contact the Department of Fair Trading for information on possible action that may be taken.
Disclosures
We may disclose a person’s personal information for the purposes for which it is primarily held or for a related secondary purpose.
In some cases we may only disclose information with the consent of the person concerned.
We may disclose personal information where we are under a legal duty to do so, including circumstances where we are under a lawful duty of care to disclose information.
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioners' website www.privacy.gov.au
