Security News > 2023 > January > Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

A woman in Canada failed in her claim for wrongful dismissal due to evidence from laptop software designed to track working time activity.

07 for part of the advance she received before starting work, and for the wages equal to the commensurate time lost.

TimeCamp can track employees' use of time, but it is also used to help professionals such as lawyers bill for their hours.

In bringing her case of wrongful dismissal, Besse said she found TimeCamp difficult to use and she could not "Get the program to differentiate between time spent working and time spent on the laptop for personal use."

Reach provided TimeCamp data describing her printing activity which showed she could not have printed the large volume of documents she would have needed to work in hard copy.

Even if she had been working on files in hard copy, she would have still had to enter information into the software at some point, which the TimeCamp data did not indicate occurred, the tribunal documents said.

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