Mandatory to provide address details - employment Law

[Crungmungus]

Hi,

Is it a legal requirement for me to provide my personal contact information to my employer? My employer currently has a next of kin address for emergencies as well as my mobile telephone number but I do not want them storing my address details on their database.

Where do I stand on this matter? Can I decline to give this information?

[Salas]

Have you done somthing wrong ? Are you a Secret Agent ? Are you on the run ?<p>
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Why is it ok for you to give out your next of kins address and not yours ?

[CheekyChops]

Don't they need your address for payroll / tax reasons? Surely your P60 at least needs to have your home address on it?

I don't understand what you have to hide, as Salas says, why is it ok to give a next of kin address but not yours?

If I were an employer, I would be very wary of employing anyone who wouldn't even tell me where they lived!

[Crungmungus]

My next of kin is an office address. I'm happy to give them my address so long as it is not stored on their database.

[squarebear]

Of course they will store it on their database otherwise there's not much point in asking you for it. Don't worry, they are hardly likely to sell it to a NIgerian spammer.

[funnygirl]

Are you worried your boss will turn up at your house or something.
Seems silly to me not to give it.

[Reverandfunk]

What are they going to do with your address?

Just give it to them and stop being so precious lol

[factor-fiction]

I suggest you chill out and provide this. Stay off your high horse until something important comes along. Your employer will be registered under DPA and will be subject to its provisions.

[colin6789]

When I was working for part of a large car company about 18 years ago they gave the addresses and phone numbers given to them for emergency use to a PR company to be used to send the workers and there families company information during a strike. I company personnel director had to opologise to the workforce and it caused a lot of bad feeling for some time.