Five advantages of contracting out disability claims management
Illness related absences can significantly impact an organization’s productivity and be quite costly as a result.
Archives for September 2014
Getting privacy and IT departments on the same team
Privacy professionals and engineers are often tasked with the same goal: to protect personal information. Given that shared objective, why are there so many difficulties between IT and privacy teams?
That was the crux of the conversation Friday at the IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress during the breakout session “Same Planet, Different Worlds: Getting IT and Privacy Teams to Work Together.”
“Privacy teams are good at saying what should be done, but it’s up to the engineers to do it,” said McAfee Director of Data Privacy Jonathan Fox, CIPP/US, CIPM. So communication between the two is essential, though challenging.
First off, privacy and IT teams speak different languages. GuruCul Solutions Chief Security and Strategy Officer Leslie Lambert, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, said it’s like the Tower of Babel: “What you often see is teams communicating past each other, in different directions, instead of with one another.”
Plus, Fox pointed … Continue reading “Getting privacy and IT departments on the same team”
Remedial powers of the Human Rights Tribunal
Often employers are unaware of the pitfalls of becoming embroiled in a Human Rights application. Employers are sometimes shocked to find that the Tribunal’s powers not only lay in monetary awards, but also in non-monetary, as well as future compliance or public interest remedies. If an employer is found to have breached the Code, below are just some examples of such powers and remedies which the Tribunal may order.
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