‘The threshold that they had to meet was low because the system was so minimally invasive’
Mar 06, 2023
A B.C. arbitrator upheld Canadian Forest Products’s use of a biometric finger-scanning system as a reasonable and minimally intrusive way to track employee attendance, finding it served legitimate business purposes and complied with privacy law. The decision emphasized that the system struck an appropriate balance between operational efficiency and employee privacy, especially compared to less effective alternatives.
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