How far does privacy extend: Audio

QUESTION: The new employer calls asking for references and information about your past employee’s performance. The easy question may be, how much can you, or should you, disclose to the new employer? The more difficult question is how do you balance privacy rights and corporate and public rights?

Sep 1, 2010

by Fil Fraser

THE PANEL:

Reg Basken: past president, Energy and Chemical Workers Union

Karen Lynch: executive director, Volunteer Alberta

Axel Meisen: chair, foresight, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures; former president and vice-chancellor, Memorial University

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This month’s audio comes from the interview that shaped the column How far does privacy extend?

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