Originally published by LexisNexis Canada

Your everyday guide to Canadian privacy laws as they apply to the workplace includes easy-to-follow guidance on employers' privacy compliance responsibilities. The fourth edition of Privacy in the Workplace features best practice tips throughout the book including best practices for:

  • organizations that engage in cross-border data transfers
  • surveillance and monitoring of employees
  • searching or accessing employees' computers or mobile devices
  • online monitoring and behavioral advertising

What's New in This Edition?

  • Managing personal information throughout the lifecycle of the employment relationship, from recruiting to the post-employment relationship
  • Understanding the framework under PIPEDA for fair processing of personal information at all stages, from collection to destruction and all the steps in between
  • Review of significant workplace privacy cases, including comprehensive coverage of Quebec case law
  • Discussion on cross-border transfers of information
  • Employee surveillance, including video, computer, GPS and biometric tracking. New technologies to identify and monitor employees are discussed as well
  • Guidance on security best practices and responding to privacy breaches
  • Essential information on dealing with employee social media usage, plus recent case law
  • An updated discussion of marketing and online privacy issues, including updated guidance on Canada's new anti-spam law (CASL) since it came into force in July 2014
  • Updated guidelines on establishing a comprehensive privacy compliance infrastructure which reflects recent changes in the law of privacy, and explains how to implement these changes
  • Overview of the International Privacy Framework
  • An updated chapter on future trends in privacy law in Canada which explains what changes and challenges organizations can expect in the near future

Who Will Benefit

  • Privacy Lawyers, Employment & labour lawyers, Corporate lawyers  – To advise clients (i.e. employers/companies) on how to comply with applicable privacy laws in the employment context, or to represent individuals affected by privacy breaches in the employment context
  • In-house counsel – To advise their company on how to comply with applicable privacy laws in their business operations, their marketing initiatives and in the employment context
  • Chief Privacy Officers, HR Professionals, managers and others who are responsible for managing personal information of employees, and/or who are responsible for ensuring that the organization's employees comply with privacy laws
  • HR Programs – To give future HR professionals an understanding of privacy issues in the workplace, and how to deal with them

For more information on Privacy in the Workplace, 4th Edition  click here.

The foregoing provides only an overview and does not constitute legal advice. Readers are cautioned against making any decisions based on this material alone. Rather, specific legal advice should be obtained.

© McMillan LLP 2017