Alex Lucifero on Newstalk 580 CFRA talks employee tracking in Ontario

Interview Summary

In Ontario, new legislation included in Bill 88 stipulates that employers with more than 25 employees at the workplace will need to have an employee monitoring policy in place. As the number of employees across the province working remotely has risen in number.

Alex Lucifero, an Ottawa employment lawyer and Managing Partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP joined Patricia Boal on Newstalk 580 CFRA to discuss the importance of employee privacy rights and more.

Interview Notes

• What can your employer track while working from home: Employers do have the power to track and monitor employees while they are working from home or while working remotely and have been doing so for many years. This legislation ensures that employers have to disclose whether or not they are tracking and monitoring their staff.
• Employee concerns regarding their privacy rights when tracked: Employees should be aware that if they are using company property they are being monitored or that their employer has the ability to monitor their behaviour. It can be contentious whether or not employees are using items during off-work hours, such as a phone for work and personal use.
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• Information and data collected from monitoring: Under this new legislation, the type of monitoring should be disclosed to employees and what the information collected through tracking will be used for. Employees should be prepared to be monitored during work hours, whether that is electronically or in person.