A school janitor has lost her job, and she says it’s because she refused to download a smartphone app that would track her location.
According to Canadian media reports, Michelle Dionne lost her job cleaning at an elementary school in Darwell, Alberta, after her employer ordered staff to install an app on their personal smartphones that would keep track of their location and work hours.
Upon receiving the request, Dionne expressed concerns about her privacy – especially as there was no clear communication about how the app worked or how any data collected would be processed.
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“It was just a blanket statement — ‘Everybody install this app on their phone. This is how we’re doing things from now on,'” Dionne told CBC.
The app in question is Blip, from a UK-based company called BrightHR.
Blip uses GPS to create a geofence around a workplace, monitoring when an employee enters or leaves.
According to Dionne, when she was fired her failure to install the Blip app on her smartphone was mentioned in her termination letter.
It seems to me that it might be reasonable to insist an employee installs an app onto their personal smartphone if – and only if – that requirement was clearly explained when they were first offered the job.
To introduce the demand after someone has ..
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