Employee surveillance systems installed by a Quebec company helped determine an employee was sleeping on the job, while working from home. But some consider this type of tracking as spying.
Starting this week, Ontario employers with 25 or more employees are required to have an electronic monitoring policy. The legislation is provoking debate about tracking workers across Canada.
Last month, Ontario became the first province to pass a new transparency law requiring companies to establish policies to tell their employees if and how they are being electronically monitored while at work, a topic that has become more prevalent as much of the workforce has moved to remote work.