Can the Metis settlement administrator disclose personal information of employees, such as salary, benefits, or home address, to council members?
• Individually identifiable information of employees should not be available to council members on a routine basis. • However, this information may be disclosed to a council member if the information is necessary for the performance of the duties of the council member (section 40(1)(h)) as an officer of the settlement. • Only the information which the council member needs to know should be disclosed (section 40(4)). For example, in a Metis settlement with a small number of employees, council members may need to receive information on individual employees’ salaries as part of the budget process, depending on how the budget is normally prepared. In a larger Metis settlement, budget decisions may be made on summary information, so in that case individual salaries would not need to be disclosed.
