Problem 2 As employers in a federal government organization, Michael Scott and Dwight Shrute have an obligation to comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The act relates to the collection of personal information and it requires employers to inform their employees in regard to what type of personal information is being collected. Mr. Scott and Mr. Shrute invested in “Keystroke Logger,” in order to monitor all employees’ outgoing email messages, without informing their employees that they were using the software. Furthermore, Mr. Scott and Mr. Shrute should have developed a privacy policy that outlined what was expected of their staff members in relation to their conduct on the internet. Mr. Scott and Mr. Shrute were also in violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act when they stored cardboard file boxes by stairwells and emergency exits. The Occupational Health and Safety Act outlines the basic responsibilities of the employer. The basic responsibilities include; providing employees with policies and producers in order to sustain a safe work environment. “Without limiting the strict duty imposed by subsection (1), an employer shall, (a) provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker; (j) prepare and review at least annually a written occupational health and safety policy and develop and maintain a program to implement that policy” (S. 25(2)). It is evident that
