The type of personal information my employer can collect includes any suspected employee misconduct that can be used to challenge any practice’s privacy compliance. Further, the guidelines from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on privacy argue that a balance must exist between what employers are looking for and the employee’s rights (Raymer, 2019). With that personal information type, an employer can collect an employee’s files, electronic keystrokes and emails, audio and video tapes, benefit and pay records, and web browsing records. However, the employer must specify the reason for collecting the information and do it with the employee’s knowledge and consent (Raymer, 2019). Failure to let the employee understand the reasons by the employer will violate the employee’s privacy, which might result in a lawsuit.
Based on the teachers’ strike in 2020, regardless of which angle the strikes are looked into, increasing the average class size for secondary school teachers means the one-on-one interaction levels between teachers and students will be distant. The government can only increase the average class sizes by increasing classes and hiring more teachers. Student performance is influenced by teacher-student interaction, and increasing class size without increasing classes or more teachers will result in burnout among the teachers and poor student performance. For elementary schools, there is no point in having both a teacher and an early childhood educator in every class at the kindergarten (CBC News, 2020). An early childhood educator has sufficient skills to teach kindergarten children without the help of a teacher. On the joint issue between the two groups, the government should consider increasing the teachers’ salaries due to an increase in inflation.
References
CBC News. (2020). Ontario teachers’ strike ramping up with more school closures | Power & Politics. [YouTube].
Raymer, E. (2019). Collecting employee data.