Is an Employer’s Request for Employee Medical Information an Invasion of Privacy?
Emma Phillips
In her paper, Intrusion Upon Seclusion: Is an Employer’s Request for Employee Medical Information an Invasion of Privacy? , Emma Phillips discusses the how labour arbitrators have applied the new tort of invasion of privacy, recognized by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Jones v. Tsige, and how it may impact on employer obligations with respect to sensitive employee health information.
A revised version of this paper will be published in Labour Arbitration Yearbook 2014-2015 (Toronto: Lancaster House, forthcoming)