Employment Law

This is a guide to Canadian privacy laws as they apply to the workplace with guidance on employers' privacy compliance responsibilities. It includes best practice tips for organizations that engage in cross-border data transfers, surveillance and monitoring of employees, searching or accessing employees' computers or mobile devices, and online monitoring and behavioral advertising.

The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and contemporary examples, The Quantified Worker explores how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood. With exhaustive detail, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled, facilitated, and driven by technological advances.

Includes chapters on employee rights to privacy, United States law, the European model of protection, employee privacy in Canada, and an enquiry into the conceptual and normative foundations of the contemporary paradigm of employees' privacy.

This resource offers a valuable overview of this new and complex space where both employers and employees have a social media presence – complete with a range of rights and responsibilities, templates for policies, checklists, sample precedents, and charts - Focus on Canada.