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ARTICLE · 11 MAY 2015

Workplace P&C Info? Have Clear Policies And Protocols To Keep It P&C!

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The appellant had special access to the respondent's network including "Personal Folders" that were confidential and could only be read by the employee assigned to a file.

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We wrote about this in two previous HRLaw blogs: Workplace Confidentiality: More about insisting on privacy! and If you expect privacy and confidentiality at the workplace – take steps to get it!. Both blogs dealt with a British Columbia Decision that was recently appealed from to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal dispensed with the matter in a decision released last month at Steel v. Coast Capital Savings Credit Union 2014 BCCA 127. That decision is 14 pages long and deserves a full-read. Below is our summary of salient points from the decision.

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The appellant was a Helpdesk Analyst in the IT department. In this role, she had special access to the respondent's network including "Personal Folders" that were confidential and could only be read by the employee assigned to a file. Here's what the Court said about the appellant's employment and the respondent's view of privacy and confidentiality at its workplace:

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