{"id":5252,"date":"2019-07-18T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:46:24","slug":"cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers are often tempted to monitor their business as well as their employees.&nbsp; There are often legitimate reasons to do both and with ample tools available in today\u2019s world (including monitoring software, surveillance cameras and various wireless recorders) the desire can go so far as to implement an environment of constant surveillance. <u>However, caution is advised<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>In Quebec, while the law recognizes that employees have a reduced expectation of privacy in the workplace (with certain exceptions such as washrooms and lockers), the Courts continue to struggle to balance the employer\u2019s right to protect its business with laws that govern an employee\u2019s right to privacy. These right to privacy laws include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Articles 35-41 Quebec Civil Code<\/li>\n<li>Sections 5 and 46 of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms of Quebec (\u201cCharter\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><em>An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a general rule, constant video surveillance of employees in the workplace during regular work hours will likely be deemed an infringement of their rights under sections 5 and 46 of the Charter.&nbsp; However, video surveillance may be allowed where it is <u>carried out for a legitimate reason and by reasonable means<\/u>, such that employees\u2019 rights are infringed to the least extent possible.<\/p>\n<p>Established criteria includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surveillance is based on serious and reasonable grounds, for example:\n<ul>\n<li>following repeated occurrences of theft, fraud, vandalism or harassment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [The objective should not be disciplinary control or performance monitoring]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surveillance allows to solve a problem that other investigative means are\/were unable to solve; and<\/li>\n<li>Surveillance is as non-intrusive as possible, for example:\n<ul>\n<li>a camera pointed at a precise work station should not record others or other areas unnecessarily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To determine if there was an infringement of the employee\u2019s rights, Courts will look to balance the interests of the employer and the rights of the employees and will weigh several factors, including:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The location of the camera and the area it covers.<\/li>\n<li>The duration of the surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose for which the recording is used.<\/li>\n<li>The person who accesses (or can have access to) the recording.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The above content is intended to provide a general guide on the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about any specific circumstance.&nbsp; Please contact the author for any advice on this topic.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers are often tempted to monitor their business as well as their employees.&nbsp; There are often legitimate reasons to do both and with ample tools available in today\u2019s world (including monitoring software, surveillance cameras and various wireless recorders) the desire can go so far as to implement an environment of constant surveillance. However, caution is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer","category-labour-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Employers are often tempted to monitor their business as well as their employees.&nbsp; There are often legitimate reasons to do both and with ample tools available in today\u2019s world (including monitoring software, surveillance cameras and various wireless recorders) the desire can go so far as to implement an environment of constant surveillance. However, caution is [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spiegel Ryan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spiegelsohmer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Spiegel Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SpiegelSohmerI\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Spiegel Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Spiegel Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a334da616569a04f72c6395abc761e2\"},\"headline\":\"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\"},\"wordCount\":397,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Employer\",\"Labour Law\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\",\"name\":\"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/\",\"name\":\"Spiegel Ryan\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Spiegel Ryan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Spiegel Ryan\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a334da616569a04f72c6395abc761e2\",\"name\":\"Spiegel Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f732db0c9f3af19449272f9fb3fc1380e56bac7ce23b32e8db385dce81f758d6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f732db0c9f3af19449272f9fb3fc1380e56bac7ce23b32e8db385dce81f758d6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Spiegel Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spiegelsohmer\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpiegelSohmerI\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/author\/spiegel_admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan","og_description":"Employers are often tempted to monitor their business as well as their employees.&nbsp; There are often legitimate reasons to do both and with ample tools available in today\u2019s world (including monitoring software, surveillance cameras and various wireless recorders) the desire can go so far as to implement an environment of constant surveillance. However, caution is [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/","og_site_name":"Spiegel Ryan","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spiegelsohmer","article_published_time":"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Spiegel Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SpiegelSohmerI","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Spiegel Admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/"},"author":{"name":"Spiegel Admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a334da616569a04f72c6395abc761e2"},"headline":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE","datePublished":"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/"},"wordCount":397,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Employer","Labour Law"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/","url":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/","name":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE - Spiegel Ryan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-07-18T15:55:59+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-25T19:46:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/en\/2019\/07\/18\/cctv-surveillance-in-the-workplace\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CCTV SURVEILLANCE IN THE WORKPLACE"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/","name":"Spiegel Ryan","description":"Just another WordPress site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#organization","name":"Spiegel Ryan","url":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spiegel-Ryan-sitweb.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"Spiegel Ryan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a334da616569a04f72c6395abc761e2","name":"Spiegel Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.spiegelsohmer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f732db0c9f3af19449272f9fb3fc1380e56bac7ce23b32e8db385dce81f758d6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f732db0c9f3af19449272f9fb3fc1380e56bac7ce23b32e8db385dce81f758d6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Spiegel Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spiegelsohmer","https:\/\/x.com\/SpiegelSohmerI"],"url":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/author\/spiegel_admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiegelryan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}