Canada Recruitment Agency

Reference and Background Checks in Canada: What Employers Can and Can’t Do Most Canadian employers check something before making a final offer. Sometimes it’s a quick call to a former manager. Sometimes it’s a full criminal record check, a credential check and a call to every employer the candidate has listed. Either way, the process is shaped by two sets of rules that many hiring managers only half know: privacy law, which controls how information about a candidate is collected and used, and human rights law, which controls what can be held against them. Consent comes before anything else Which privacy law applies depends on the employer. Federally regulated businesses, such as banks, airlines, telecom companies and interprovincial trucking firms, fall under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) for employee information. Most other private employers in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec are covered by those provinces’ own privat…