Outcome # 2

Question 1

Privacy

Personal Information Protection Act

Answer 1

private sector in British Columbia

similar balancing of employer and employee interests in assessing whether an employer can conduct surveillance on employees

Question 2

PIPEDA ( Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)

Answer 2

regulates an employer’s collection and dissemination of information about employees

right of employees to access their personnel files in some circumstances

Question 3

Worker behavior outside workplace

Answer 3

both union and nonunion employers have been found to have lacked proper cause to dismiss employees who are arrested for activities unrelated to the workplace.

Only dismiss when they have affected reputation of the firm