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The Changing Dimensions of Privacy in the Workplace: Legal Rights and Labour Realities

Emma Phillips

May 07, 2015

The Changing Dimensions of Privacy in the Workplace: Legal Rights and Labour Realities, Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2015)

This paper explores two important trends in recent privacy law decisions by Canada’s highest courts: the clear affirmation that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace, and an increasing recognition of the right of employees to “informational privacy” (the right to control how information about oneself is communicated to others). These questions have been brought to the fore by the proliferation of information technology in the workplace, and by the increased blurring of lines between employees’ professional and private lives

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Emma Phillips

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Privacy & Access to Information, Employment Law, Labour Law