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By Occasional Contributors | 2 Minutes Read October 17, 2014

Competition bureau publishes draft guidelines for the production of electronically stored information

On August 26, 2014, the Competition Bureau published draft Guidelines for the Production of Electronically Stored Information for public consultation.

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By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 2 Minutes Read November 6, 2013

Customer contacts on LinkedIn = Property of the employer

Ever since the days that employment law was referred to as “master and servant” law, employees have owed various common-law duties and, for some employees, fiduciary obligations to their employer. These obligations take many forms, but key is that an employee cannot misappropriate an employer’s confidential or proprietary information. In the days before social media, this was fairly easy to describe. Generally speaking, an employee could not print or email to himself a copy of the employer’s customer list, and then use that list to compete against the employer. But what if that customer list is not a document, but is kept on a LinkedIn page?

Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Employee Relations, Privacy / common-law duties, confidential or proprietary information, Customer contacts on LinkedIn, employment law, fiduciary obligations, guidelines, HR blogs, Law blogs, Legal blogs, LinkedIn, LinkedIn networking information, policies and procedures, privacy and confidentiality, Property of the employer, social media, social media policy, “master and servant” law

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