Information relating to a particular employee, former employee or applicant to
become an employee of, or a particular office holder, former office-holder or
applicant to become an office-holder under, the authority.
In brief, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65)
SCHEDULE 7A – Access to Information: Exempt Information
Is only applicable to information that relates to the local authority.
Not information that relates to an individual who wishes to engage with an outside charity.
In our opinion the legislation has clearly been misused on this occasion and should only be invoked when it relates to the local authority, ie, someone applying for council employment, internal council matters and not an employee wishing to take a days leave once a month.
In our opinion yet another example of ERC misusing legislation.