What does the ITM do with your personal data?

The ITM processes your personal data only for the purposes of performing its duties. These include in particular:

  • Administration: the ITM is required to collect personal data confirming your identity (such as a photocopy of your identity card or passport) and to determine what action the ITM should take in relation thereto. The ITM must also know your address or phone number in order to be able to contact you.
  • Services: the ITM processes the information concerning you for the exercise of its duties, as provided for in the Labour Code (Code du travail) and subsidiarily by certain related laws; these are:
    • to apply and to ensure the application of legislation, including in particular working conditions and employee protection;
      (for example: to ensure the safety and health of employees with access to the workplace (i.e. in the context of Covid checks carried out by the ITM and in accordance with Article 3 septies, paragraph 8 of the amended Law of 17 July 2020 on the measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the so-called “Covid Law”);
    • to advise and assist employers and employees and to provide practical legal and technical information with regard to the implementation of legal, regulatory, administrative and contractual provisions in matters of work and occupational safety and health and to take on the role of joint interlocutor in order to obviate and resolve individual social conflicts;
    • to bring to an end situations conflicting with legal, regulatory, administrative and contractual provisions in matters of work and occupational safety and health;
    • to identify infringements in the areas within its competence and notify the State Prosecutor (le Procureur d’Etat) thereof,
    • to bring to the attention of the Minister any deficiencies or abuses of rights observed in practice, as well as questions of fact not specifically covered by the said existing provisions and to suggest to him or her the means of remedying them by issuing a detailed opinion.
  • Managing relations with members of the public/users: it is possible that the ITM will ask you for feedback on its services during surveys and that the ITM will share it with its staff in order to improve its services to members of the public/users;
  • To provide you with the most suitable services:  the ITM collects information about you when you visit our website (e.g. contact form), as well as when you call the Help Centre service. ITM staff perform their analysis in order to identify your needs.

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