CNIL Fines Company €10,000 for Refusing Employee Access to Data, Lack of Cooperation

PARIS—The French data protection authority (CNIL) announced July 9 that its enforcement committee had fined a company €10,000 ($12,195) for refusing to allow an employee to access and copy his personal data and for refusing to cooperate with a CNIL investigation.

The CNIL said Article 39 of the country’s framework 1978 Law on Information Technology and Liberties (78-17 of 1978) requires companies to have procedures for providing workers access to their personal data retained by the company and that the law allows workers to copy such data.

The worker’s June 2011 complaint said the company Equipements Nord Picardie denied him ...