TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice.
Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, the employees did what most people do when handed that news.
They asked what exactly it would track, whether it could be used against them, and whether they had any say. The more uncomfortable answer, in much of Canada, is that the law gives them very little leverage to refuse.
The bank’s move, reported by Reuters in an exclusive earlier this month, applied to employees in its financial-crimes and risk-management functions.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!They were told TD would deploy a tool called WorkiQ to track how they spent their time across web browsers, internal messaging, meeting apps, and other work software.
