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Can an employer disclose a departing employee’s restrictive covenants to their new employer?

Posted in : First Tuesday Q&A NI on 4 June 2019
Arthur Cox
Arthur Cox
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It is standard course for an employer to notify a departing employee’s new employer of any post-termination restrictions in place. Often this will simply be by cutting and pasting across the relevant sections from the employee’s contract of employment.  

An employee’s contract of employment will contain “personal data” as defined under Article 4(1) of the GDPR and disclosure of such information to a new employer would amount to “processing”. In order to lawfully process personal data, an employer must have a lawful basis to do so in accordance with Article 6(1) of the GDPR.  

The most applicable grounds that the former employer will be able to rely on are

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Arthur Cox
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