Employer refused to give 103-page report to fired employee
A women's shelter fired an employee over alleged misappropriation, then spent months fighting to keep its investigation report out of her hands.
In an August 5, 2026 ruling, adjudicator Amy O'Connor of British Columbia's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner sided with the employer, a non-profit operating Wilma's Transition House, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence.
It had refused to hand over a 103-page investigation report to the former employee, who sought her personal file after being fired and sued over alleged misappropriation.
The former employee worked for Xolhemet Society, before being fired and later sued alongside a second person over alleged wrongful conduct including misappropriation of funds. She then asked for her personal information under British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act, which gives individuals a right to see information organizations hold about them.
Most of what she asked for came through. One document didn't: a 103-page investigation report from an outside forensic accounting firm, which the organization argued was privileged in its entirety. Mediation failed, so the matter went to a formal inquiry, where O'Connor initially found the evidence too thin to rule on the claim and asked for more before deciding.
That left two questions to untangle: whether the report was a confidential communication seeking legal advice,...
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