Employee Access Limits Under Pipa

The Personal Information Protection Act 2016 has been in effect for more than a year now, and employers in Bermuda are now fielding requests from their employees to access and review their employment records — all of them.

Of course, employees are entitled under Pipa to submit such written requests. However, the employer's requirement to comply with those requests is subject to a few caveats.

Generally, Pipa allows all individuals to request any organisation to provide that individual with access to, and to examine and to receive a copy of, the personal information about them that is in the custody or control of that organisation.

The exercise by individuals, including employees, of such access, review, correction and control rights are at the core of Pipa privacy protection rights and they are intended to be invoked for the purposes Pipa intends.