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HR’s toughest calls

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 11 2013

What do you really need to know about the new HR law developments which occured over the last 12 months? There was no precedent setting Supreme Court

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

If you expect privacy and confidentiality at the workplace take steps to get it!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • April 11 2013

the employer had to trust Ms. Steel to only access such documents as part of the performance of her duties and to follow the protocols when

MacDermid, Inc. v. Deiter, 702 F.3d 725 (2d Cir. 2012)

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, USA
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  • March 25 2013

Plaintiff MacDermid Chemicals ("MacDermid"), a Connecticut company, decided to terminate the employment of Defendant Jackie Deiter, who worked and

B.C. Commissioner addresses employer monitoring of corporate vehicle use

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 8 2013

The British Columbia Information & Privacy Commissioner has recently released her decision in Schindler Elevator Corporation 2012 BCIPC No. 25

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

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