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Information & Ethics committee I would pretty much reiterate that. It's not exactly the same amount of time allotted per person--and I won't go into detail here and I can't give you a dollar figure--but certainly a lot of time and energy is spent in managing and providing opinions under the legislation and gat
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee Thank you.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee There will obviously be some subjectivity in the employer's response. An employee, as Edith has said, who makes the same request 50 times and the employer says, look, I've searched everywhere and I don't have this letter that you claim to say exists, or I don't have this document
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee We've had situations where--I'm not talking necessarily about a particular type of lawsuit--an current employee files a human rights complaint, and we've had situations where certain internal departments that hold the information.... For example, the complaint is based on a failu
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee It happens. It should be, I agree.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee Absolutely.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee The intent here is the management of the employment relationship, the conducting of routine business with regard to employees, certainly not selling your employee's information out to where it shouldn't belong.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee Don has asked me to speak to that, if that's all right.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee In essence, the difference would be that where the personal information is employment-related there would be no requirement for consent, provided the information is being used, collected, and disclosed for reasonable business purposes. I'm not using the exact or appropriate terms
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman
Information & Ethics committee That's one piece of it. With regard to having to obtain consent for collection, use, and disclosure, that would alleviate some of the pressure on employers, yes.
December 4th, 2006Committee meeting
Barbara Mittleman