Custodian refuses to get monitoring app for work, says it got her fired

CBC News published this video item, entitled “Custodian refuses to get monitoring app for work, says it got her fired” – below is their description.

Michelle Dionne refused to download an app that would monitor whether she was inside a “geofence” — an invisible boundary created by the employer — to tell when she and other custodians were on the job. An employment lawyer warns that an increase in similar “tattleware” is a slippery slope when it comes to workers’ privacy.

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