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By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 2 Minutes Read September 30, 2014

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.

Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Payroll, Privacy, Union Relations / Disability, disability claims management, employment law, ensure equitable treatment, HR processes, Human Resources Department, Illness related absences, Managing the disability, organization’s productivity, physical and psychological diagnoses, return to work process, safely returning the employee to work, short and long term disability claims, sick days

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read September 29, 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”

Article by Occasional Contributors / Business, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Privacy / architectural flows, big data, Cloud, communication fissures, data classification, data flow chart, data minimization, digital identity, IAPP, IP address, IT departments, need for an organization to delete data, Privacy professionals, security and confidentiality of data assets, The International Association of Privacy Professionals

By Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services | 3 Minutes Read September 29, 2014

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.

Article by Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services / Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Payroll / 2008 HRTO, 2012 HRTO 2218 (CanLII), 2014 HRTO 272 (CanLII), accessibility, back pay, canadian employment law, Davis v. Nordock Inc., De Bousquet Professional Corporation, Disability, disability-related needs, discrimination, duty to accommodate, employment contract, employment law, Garrie v. Janus Joan Inc., Giguere v. Popeye Restaurant, HRCO, hrto, human rights code, monetary award for injury, non-monetary remedies, public interest remedies, reinstatment, termination, terminations, Terri-Lynn Garrie, underpaying the intellectually disabled

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