"Pre-Employment Screening: Changes to the Criminal Records Check Process"
"Pre-Employment Screening: Changes to the Criminal Records Check Process" is the title of an article published today by law firm McCarthy Tetrault. The article addresses an Interim Policy Statement...
View ArticleTop 10 Canadian Cases on Workplace Privacy in Unionized Employment
Lancaster House presented an audio-conference last Thursday (May 13, 2010) on the "Top 10 Cases on Workplace Privacy in the Unionized Workplace". The cases covered - there were more than 10 -...
View Article"Background Check Program a Reasonable Exercise of Management Rights"
Hadiya Roderique, a lawyer at Fasken Martineau in Ontario, has written a bulletin entitled "Background Check Program a Reasonable Exercise of Management Rights" (August 4, 2010). The bulletin provides...
View ArticleTruck driver terminated because unable to enter US entitled to statutory...
Celadon Canada Inc. v. Power [2010] C.L.A.D. No. 247 (Luborsky)
View ArticleBC arbitrator addresses whether existing employees can be required to submit...
In the May 14, 2010 labour arbitration decision in Vancouver (City) v. Vancouver Firefighters' Union, Local 18 (Police Records Checks Grievance), [2010] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 81, a BC arbitrator addressed...
View ArticleNewfoundland & Labrador issue guidelines on new “criminal ground" protection...
In July 2010, Newfoundland and Labrador's Human Rights Act was amended to include an additional prohibited ground of discrimination known as the "criminal ground."The Newfoundland and Labrador Human...
View ArticleBest practices guide on ciminal background checks published for US employers
The National Employment Law Project is a US advocacy organization for employment rights of lower-wage workers, It has offices across the United States and a staff of lawyers, policy experts and...
View ArticleBC Privacy Commissioner to consider use of PRIME police database for...
BC's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, issued a news release yesterday in which she confirmed that her office: has been examining the issue of employment-related criminal records...
View ArticleCourt addresses whether withdrawn criminal charges can be included for...
J.N. v. Durham Regional Police Service, 2011 ONSC 2892
View ArticleEmployment contract frustrated when security guard could not meet new...
Cowie v. Great Blue Heron Casino, 2011 ONSC 6357
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Non-Profit in compliance with PIPA when it collected written account of...
In Redi Enterprises Society, Oorder P2016 -07 (November 30, 2016), the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner ruled that a non-profit organization, Redi Enterprises Society, did not...
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