disclosure
"Perspectives on Disability Disclosure: The Importance of Employer Practices and Workplace Climate", 26 Employ Respons Rights J 237
Looks at the perspective of persons with disabilities to identify the factors that influence their employee duty of disclosure; concerns that are considered when deciding to disclose, such as the unfair negative stigma often received, isolation or lowered expectations; highlighting barriers in the workplace that should be removed in order to address and circumvent such disclosure considerations.
"Accommodation: Employee Duty to Disclose - Review of Cases Shows Principles, Results Not Always Consistent" Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Contrasts two cases of non disclosure until after termination, with different results in respect to whether the employer was required to accommodate the employee. Context is important.
"Medical Documentation and Disability-Related Accommodation Requests" Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Outlines what is required by an employee to disclose as part of the accommodation process, as well as the employer's duty to maintain privacy of medical documents provided.
"Random Alcohol and Drug Testing as a Complex Human Rights Issue", Law Now - Columns
Commentary on SCC case Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union of Canada Local 30 v Irving Pulp and Paper Mill, 2013 SCC 34, and compares ratio to provide an analysis on the then ongoing litigation issues in Alberta Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union Local 707 v Suncor Energy Inc, 2012 ABCA 307; union vs. non-unionized setting on pre-employment drug test and the line of addiction as deciding factor.
"Disability Disclosure in the Digital Age: Why the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario Should Reform Its Approach to Anonymized Decisions" 25 Journal of L and Social Policy 109
The article gives a significant review of the OHRT adjudication of requests for anonymity in disability cases and discussed the risk of disclosure. It further discusses the balancing of the open courts principle vrs. the right to privacy; the right to privacy vrs. freedom of the press.
"Open Court and Confidentiality: Can There Be a Balance in Light of our New Media Age?" Ontario Bar Association (OBA) - Human Rights Annual Update
Discusses the test for anonymity of decisions and the implications for disability.
"The Doctor's Role in the Accommodation Process - Employer's Right to Medical and Other Evidence", as Tab 4 of The Law Society of Upper Canada's Continuing Professional Development conference on June 16, 2016 titled The Duty to Accommodate in the Workplac
View of adjudicator's attempt to balance between right to privacy and right to information regarding accommodation needs; discusses cases where employee refuses to provide the necessary documents during the process.
"Mental Health and the Workplace: Important Issues for HR Professionals to Consider" Norton Rose LLP for the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA)
Canvesses the law on medical information disclosure requirements. Discusses how adjudicators seek to balance the employee’s right to privacy with the employer’s right to manage the workplace, maintain safety, and expect a certain level of performance. The article reviews the employee’s obligation to disclose medical information for the employer to assess the employees fitness to work or to assess reasonable accommodations or as necessary for hearing and what type of information may be requested. Discusses the employees right to refuse disclosure and the consequences.
"Human Rights Disclosure Litigation: Uncovering Invisible Medical Records", 28:1 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 153
Article filters through human rights disclosure rulings in Canada; concern with levels of confidentiality awarded to persons with disabilities when providing disclosure of medical information.