FOI23/24 075 Staff Permitted to Work Abroad
FOI reference: 23/24 075
Date received: 24/08/2023
Date responded: 07/09/2023
Information requested
This is an information request relating to the number of staff who are allowed to work from abroad.
Please include the following information, for the 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 financial years:
The number of staff, per year, given permission to work from abroad
For each member of staff granted permission, please provide their pay band, the country they have been allowed to work from, the length of time that they have been allowed to work for and the dates they were allowed to work from abroad. Please also provide the reason. If any of this is not possible to provide, please provide the remaining information
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
Response
The number of staff, per year, given permission to work from abroad
SQA have no formal company approval process for this type of request, therefore no formal record of such events have been recorded.
Any requests from staff to work abroad would be done on an informal basis in agreement with the line manager. These requests are only authorised on an exceptional basis, for example on compassionate grounds, and would be for short term purposes only.
For each member of staff granted permission, please provide their pay band, the country they have been allowed to work from, the length of time that they have been allowed to work for and the dates they were allowed to work from abroad. Please also provide the reason. If any of this is not possible to provide, please provide the remaining information.
Please see the response above.