Linger
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My employer has implemented qhrsoftware.com 's mental health care integrated HR/payroll/financial suite. The company won a contract with ontario ministry of health to offer it to hospitals and health care agencies.
With-out telling the employees anything, administration uploaded demographics on each employee (home address, cell phone number, emergency contact, Social insurance #, etc.) but it also does payroll so our files include accrued benefits (vacation time, sick days) and work schedule.
I restrict my personal information, not providing phone#'s to stores or additional information to my bank.
Yesterday I got an email inviting me to log-on to my personal account. Seeing that this web log-on was an off-site server, I left my initials (but deleted the rest of my name) replaced all my info with 999 for the digit fields and 'employee does not consent' for the text fields. Employer's email said they'll keep uploading qualifications, degrees, additional training.
Now I had a surreptitious meeting today with head of payroll, she was not pleased. I said I did not consent for them to release my personal information to a 3rd party. She was ignorant of any possible privacy concerns, and took the position: employment standards requires certain information to issue a payroll, she sees no problem with that info (and everything else) going to this software contractor because it made her job a lot easier.
I understand that the software company could be bought, servers out-sourced to India, and all my efforts to keep my information off the web nullified.
How does one guard against identity theft when your employer can just outsource payroll and you loose all control of your information?
Best,
Linger
With-out telling the employees anything, administration uploaded demographics on each employee (home address, cell phone number, emergency contact, Social insurance #, etc.) but it also does payroll so our files include accrued benefits (vacation time, sick days) and work schedule.
I restrict my personal information, not providing phone#'s to stores or additional information to my bank.
Yesterday I got an email inviting me to log-on to my personal account. Seeing that this web log-on was an off-site server, I left my initials (but deleted the rest of my name) replaced all my info with 999 for the digit fields and 'employee does not consent' for the text fields. Employer's email said they'll keep uploading qualifications, degrees, additional training.
Now I had a surreptitious meeting today with head of payroll, she was not pleased. I said I did not consent for them to release my personal information to a 3rd party. She was ignorant of any possible privacy concerns, and took the position: employment standards requires certain information to issue a payroll, she sees no problem with that info (and everything else) going to this software contractor because it made her job a lot easier.
I understand that the software company could be bought, servers out-sourced to India, and all my efforts to keep my information off the web nullified.
How does one guard against identity theft when your employer can just outsource payroll and you loose all control of your information?
Best,
Linger
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