Data Protection help

[Aesiroe]

I'm after some legal advice and can't seem to find anything online.
A self employed member of staff is leaving and is wanting to take her client cards with her.
90% of her appointments were booked through our joint business Facebook account via inbox, while the others were walkin appointments to the salon or had messaged her personally.
Is there any data protection law to stop me giving them to her?
Thank you

 

[xXcharleyXx]

Data protection prevents you from keeping them. She is self employed, they are her clients not yours, not the salons. They are part of her business and should be retained by her

 

[Aesiroe]

@xXcharleyXx thata great. Thank you. No problem giving them to her, just wanted to make sure.

 

[AcidPerm]

As @xXcharleyXx said, self employed staff should keep their own client records and no-one else including you should have access to them.

If you have other self employed staff, perhaps review your joint use of Facebook for booking their clients in case it could be argued by HMRC that you're treating them as your employees but avoiding paying tax and NI. Hopefully, they handle all their client monies and just pay you what's owed? That way, there's less scope for ambiguity.

You might find the sticky thread (HMRC) at the top of this forum helpful? It also has a couple of useful links for further info.