Good employers always conduct a reference check to determine whether to hire a candidate. With the world of online communications, however, how far should an employer go when researching the background of a potential candidate? At what point does that legitimate research become inappropriate snooping into a person’s private life?
Privacy in the Workplace 101
Privacy in the workplace is an area that invites a broad range of views and perspectives. Whether the information relates to data on an electronic device such as an employer-provided computer or blackberry, or personal employee information such as bank account information for pay cheque deposits, we all expect some degree of privacy in the