Employers to Soon Have to Disclose Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace

The Province plans to introduce legislation later this month that would require employers to tell their workers if and how they are being monitored electronically.

Minister of Labour, Training and Skills for Ontario Monte McNaughton says that  today businesses have more ways than ever before to monitor where their workers are and what they are doing.  He adds that the future of work is changing.

This would make Ontario the first province to require monitoring policies and protect workers privacy by requiring transparency on how employees use of computers, phones, gps systems and other devices are being tracked.

The change would only affect employers with 25  or more workers. It would also require the purpose of why monitoring is occuring.

For more information on the proposed legislation you can find the press release below.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1001654/ontario-requiring-employers-to-disclose-electronic-monitoring