employee privacy

Dan Michaluk

Dan Michaluk
January 08, 2009 00:57

On December 15th, Arbitrator Lorne Slotnick dismissed a grievance that challenged the implementation of a biometric timekeeping system. The employer purchased a Kronos system and required employees to enroll.  The system works by matching a person’s partial fingerprint against a 348 byte n...

Dan Michaluk

Dan Michaluk
December 24, 2008 16:46

On December 15th, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that an employee was constructively dismissed because her employer installed a video camera in her office on questionable grounds and recorded images surreptitiously for about nine months before she discovered the camera and abruptly...

Dan Michaluk

Dan Michaluk
December 08, 2008 18:14

I presented today at a regional conference of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers on “the law and ethics of recruiting in today’s wired world.” This is an encore from a presentation I did back in June, described here. The two topics I focussed on today were...

Can Employers Monitor Employee's Text Messages Sent Through Company Owned Devises?

Anthony Zaller
October 17, 2008 00:02

In Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc., (June 2008), City of Ontario police department employees, and one employee's wife, brought a Fourth Amendment action against their employer, in connection with the department's review of employees' text messages, and asserted claim against wireless...

Can Employers Monitor Employee's Text Messages Sent Through Company Owned Devices?

Anthony Zaller
October 17, 2008 00:02

  In Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc., (June 2008), City of Ontario police department employees, and one employee's wife, brought a Fourth Amendment action against their employer, in connection with the department's review of employees' text messages, and asserted claim against...