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Safety inspection blitzes for the health care sector

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 31 2013

The Ministry of Labour (MOL) has announced that inspectors will be conducting safety inspection blitzes on workplace violence in FebruaryMarch of

Hacking, extortion and human resources: the need to protect employee personal information

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 25 2013

It is not often that employers and HR practitioners have to worry about extortion, but the recent story about Drake International makes this a good

“Workplace investigations part 3”

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 17 2013

In earlier posts, here and here, we discussed some legal issues that arise in workplace investigations. In this post, we will discuss some of the

GPS monitoring of company vehicles permitted under PIPA

  • Harris & Company
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  • Canada
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  • January 16 2013

The BC Information and Privacy Commissioner recently issued a decision on the use of GPS monitoring technology in company vehicles. The complaint

Circulation of erotic pictures in the workplace: when the righteous end up righted

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 11 2012

A substitute teacher recently won her legal battle against a Québec school board that withdrew her name from the substitute teachers’ list, invoking erotic pictures of her taken some eight years earlier

Personal and ethical use of work computers

  • WeirFoulds LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 4 2012

Computers dominate the workplace

Reasonable expectation of privacy on work-issued computers

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 3 2012

The Supreme Court has found that employees may have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the information contained on their work computers, at least where personal use is permitted or reasonably expected by the employer

Workplace privacy a confidential overview

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 26 2012

Workplace privacy issues are emerging as key issues for employers with Canadian-based workplaces

Employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in workplace computers, says Supreme Court

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 7 2012

The Supreme Court of Canada's long-awaited decision in R v Cole a case involving a high school teacher caught with nude photographs of an underage female student on his school board-issued laptop has confirmed that employees can expect a reasonable level of privacy in connection with personal information stored on workplace computers

Supreme Court of Canada rules on workplace computer pornography: employee privacy rights limit police

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 6 2012

On October 19, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in R. v. Cole