Spy software found a worker wasn't working as much as she said. Now she must repay her wages.

TL;DR

Karlee Besse, an employee of Vancouver Island accounting firm Reach CPA, initially claimed she was wrongfully dismissed and that her employer owed her $5,000 in unpaid wages and severance pay.Besse's employer said it terminated her because she engaged in time theft and filed a countersuit seeking just over $2,600 in wages it paid her while she allegedly wasn't working as well as part of an advance she received before her employment began.In October of last year, the National Labor Relations Board expressed concern over employers' growing electronic surveillance of workers and its potential to intrude on their privacy rights.The company also noticed a discrepancy between the time-tracking software's record of her activity and how she manually recorded her time.Besse claimed that she'd printed the documents in question and was working off of the hard copies, but never communicated this to Reach."

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