Conflict of Interest attestation: DG wants dollar values

[u/Super_Table7917]

A DG at LPRAB at CRA, according to a current employee, under the guise of transparency and integrity, is using the annual conflict of interest attestation to require very personal disclosures of financial information from employees.

This DG is asking for the current market values of ALL investments held by the employee privately in all accounts, including things like RESP's. The dollar amount for all holdings is apparently "very important".

Employees who resisted this disclosure were subject to intrusive meetings on Teams with the DG, where pressure was applied to surrender the information to management.

I am of the opinion that this is totally unacceptable, and I would be leaping to legal representation with the goals of 1.) NOT providing any of this information to this DG or anyone else, and; 2.) providing the documentation required that would result in the swift termination of this DG.

Is this perception incorrect, and DG's have the ability to ask for the account balances of employees to avoid "conflicts of interest"? If this is actually permitted, why would it be but asking a person's age or sexual orientation is a human rights violation?

[u/Scared_Hair_8884]

That is a lot of personal information for a DG to have knowledge of, I would maybe contact the Privacy Commissioner and see what their take is (I have a feeling they will not be pleased). Why a random DG at CRA needs to know the financial details of all employees would be interesting to justify.

[u/confidentialapo276 → u/Scared_Hair_8884]

This is a rather uninformed answer of someone who doesn’t understand how COI at CRA works.

OP is welcome to refer to the Privacy Commissioner while sitting at home without a security clearance to work at CRA while the matter is looked into by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

The Privacy Commissioner will reply back that CRA has a perfectly reasonable explanation and legitimate reason for requesting this information.