Video surveillance made necessary

Release date: May 2, 2016

The union challenged the employer’s decision to set up two video-surveillance cameras to film certain maintenance employees on the night shift. According to the arbitrator, the employer had a serious and reasonable motive to initiate this type of surveillance, as he wanted to verify an allegation denouncing an employee who was sleeping and wasting time during working hours. According to the arbitrator, the context of unsupervised work left the employer with little choice as to the means to be used to verify whether this was a matter of occasional lapses in behaviour or whether this was a “pattern”. In addition, this surveillance was of a relatively limited nature, since it was conducted only in two specific locations where the alleged behaviour could occur, since few people were likely to go there, and since only the Director of Human Resources monitored the video records. The grievance was rejected. 

Unifor Québec v. AMT Die Casting Inc. 
DTE 2015T-417, 2015 QCTA 346, Jean-Guy Roy Esq.


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