Employee Monitoring (Canada) | Practical Law

Employee Monitoring (Canada) | Practical Law

A Practice Note providing guidance on laws, regulations, and issues related to employee monitoring in Canada. This Note discusses federal and provincial laws applicable to employee monitoring, implementation requirements, including reasonable purposes and means, and employees' rights to notice and consent, to object to monitoring, and to access their personal information contained in the employer's monitoring records. This Note also addresses limitations on prohibiting and monitoring personal communications sent using an employer's systems, issues when monitoring employee-owned devices, using closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring in the workplace, monitoring employees' off-duty conduct, collective bargaining and labour relations considerations, and potential sanctions for illegal employee monitoring.

Employee Monitoring (Canada)

Practical Law Practice Note w-007-0954 (Approx. 28 pages)

Employee Monitoring (Canada)

by Lyndsay A. Wasser, McMillan LLP, with Practical Law Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
MaintainedExpandAlberta, British Columbia, Canada (Common Law)...Federal (Canada), Quebec
A Practice Note providing guidance on laws, regulations, and issues related to employee monitoring in Canada. This Note discusses federal and provincial laws applicable to employee monitoring, implementation requirements, including reasonable purposes and means, and employees' rights to notice and consent, to object to monitoring, and to access their personal information contained in the employer's monitoring records. This Note also addresses limitations on prohibiting and monitoring personal communications sent using an employer's systems, issues when monitoring employee-owned devices, using closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring in the workplace, monitoring employees' off-duty conduct, collective bargaining and labour relations considerations, and potential sanctions for illegal employee monitoring.