27 Oct George was a unionized car mechanic with 25 years’ service in an auto body shop

Instructions Answers to these questions are due on the last day of class. Please submit your answers electronically. Limit your response to each question to three hundred words (3 questions x three hundred words = nine-hundred-word max.) 

Each answer is worth 5 points (15 points total):  5 points for correct reasoning,  Points deducted for each error in the quality of writing (spelling, grammar, etc.) up to a maximum of two points in each question. 

Question 1

 George was a unionized car mechanic with 25 years’ service in an auto body shop. On Thursday, May 14, 2015, he reported an injury while handling an air brake valve, but he worked the balance of that day as well as the next. However, on the following Monday, George returned to work with a doctor’s note stating he could only use his left arm. But because George was already doing modified work that required both arms, the employer said it could not offer him any modified work. The employer decided to undertake video surveillance of George off-duty. It was suspicious because George had a somewhat greater-than-average record of work-related incidents calling for medical attention and it wanted to see whether he was engaged in activities that went beyond the medical restrictions imposed upon him by his physician. The surveillance revealed him carrying objects of significant weight and digging-up his garden. George was fired by him employer. He grieved his dismissal and an arbitrator ruled that the surveillance evidence was inadmissible. How do you think the arbitrator justified that decision? Explain your answer. 

Question 2 

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (OIPC) is mandated, among other things, to educate the public on privacy issues. Visit the OIPC’s website (https://www.oipc.ab.ca/) and find its list of “resources” and choose any document published by the OIPC. Summarize the document on your chosen topic, emphasizing that topic’s significance for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information for HR professionals. Please remember to provide the URL (Internet address) and the title of your chosen document. Question 3 

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Alberta’s PIPA as unconstitutional. Describe the primary reason for that decision, the time frame that was given for corrective action to be taken, and the response of the Alberta government in terms of amendments to the legislation.