Pilot project on individual productivity monitoring - Council

In view of providing Heads of Language Units and individual members of staff with individual performance indicators, the Council intends to set up a pilot project on Individual Productivity Monitoring.

 

The proposed tool should enable individual members of staff to monitor their own production and the head of the data subject's unit to monitor the production of any given member of their unit and to monitor the production of all members of their unit in one simple operation.

 

On the basis of actual output as compared to the actual working time spent on translation and revision (core activities), an objective picture of individual performance can be established on the basis of:  

The productivity reports will be generated monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly. The data produced in this way will be used by the head of the data subject's unit and the individual members of staff as one element in the assessment of the production of each member of staff.

 

A full implementation of the final processing is envisaged around September 2009 after the successful completion of the pilot project.

 

The EDPS concluded that there was no reason to believe that there is a breach of the provisions of Regulation 45/2001 provided certain considerations are fully taken into account. In particular, should the pilot project become a full fledged project at the term of the pilot project, a legal decision/instrument providing a specific legal basis for the processing of personal data must be adopted; the information note on the processing of personal data should be completed to include information on the categories of data collected and further processed; the controller should inform the EDPS as to the measures used to make the data anonymous at the end of the two year retention period; and the possibility of a specific revision procedure by data subjects who which to contest the accuracy of the reports prior to the evaluation exercise should be examined.