including duty to conduct an adequate search for responsive records

Employer ordered to provide employment information to former employee

January 31, 2013 Adam Gorley Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HRMS, Human Resources, Payroll, Privacy and Security, Source Deductions and Reporting

Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner recently heard a case in which an employer refused to provide employee records to a former employee upon request, allegedly claiming that, “legally she does not have to give [the employee] a copy.” The commissioner’s office had little trouble deciding that the employer was wrong and ordered that it proved the requested records to the former employee.

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