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FOI2023/00273: Day of Action May 10th at UKRI

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Case reference FOI2023/00273

Published 3 August 2023

Request

Request received: 11 May 2023

How many UKRI employees logged "Industrial Action" on UK SBS or Workday (for Innovate UK) for 10th May 2023?

Please provide an overall number and additionally, please provide numbers by workplace for the following:

• Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick Lane, DaresburyWA4 4AD

• BGS Edinburgh The Lyell Centre Research Avenue South, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP

• BGS Keyworth Nicker Hill Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG

• Polaris House, Swindon, SN2 1FL

• BAS Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

• UK ATC Edinburgh, Blackford Hill Edinburgh EH9 3HJ

• Caxton House 7th Floor, London, SW1H 9NA

• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX

Response

Response sent: 09 June 2023

There were 428 employees who logged "Industrial Action" under Attendance Management on UK SBS systems and Workday for Innovate UK, for 10th May 2023. This figure includes all employees from across seven Research Councils, UKRI's Corporate Hub, Research England, and Innovate UK.

The breakdown of employees who logged industrial action for the workplaces you have listed is provided in the table below. Please note that your list does not contain all UKRI workplace locations, therefore the total of the figures below will not match the figure provided above.

Daresbury Laboratory: 39

BGS Edinburgh: 24

BGS Keyworth: 53

Polaris House: 35

BAS Cambridge: 34

UK ATC Edinburgh: 45

Caxton House: <5

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: 181

Data relating to less than five individuals has been withheld from disclosure under section 40(2), the exemption relating to personal information. We consider that by providing the details, individuals in this group could be identifiable. This would undermine expectations of confidentiality in such circumstances and would be unfair to those concerned, especially where this concerns special category data.

We consider that to disclose information relating to small numbers of individuals would contravene the first Data Protection Principle as defined under Section 86 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Article 5 of UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) of lawfulness, fairness and transparency. Section 40(2) is an absolute exemption and does not require a public interest test.

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