Calgary Police Service sues former head of HR over 'inappropriate' social media posts

As the legal representative of the Calgary Police Service, Chief Mark Neufeld is suing the service's former HR director Angela Whitney, alleging she breached a severance agreement. Calgary's chief of police has filed a lawsuit against the service's former director of human resources, asking a judge to force her to remove "inappropriate social media posts" that, according to the statement of claim, "divulge confidential information about the CPS and its employees.

"Disclosing confidential information about employees engaged in HR processes will have a chilling effect on employees' willingness to trust and participate in HR processes moving forward,'' reads the statement of claim filed with the Court of King's Bench of Alberta last week.A confidentiality clause

"The employee agrees that she has taken, and will in the future continue to take, all appropriate precautions to safeguard such confidential and proprietary information," reads part of the agreement. The social media posts divulged confidential information about the CPS and its employees, in breach of the agreement, according to the statement of claim.Whitney also threatened to publicly post a "response letter" from "that incident" and later published a letter to Calgarians alleging a sex toy was thrown in someone's face during a meeting as well as details about the ensuing HR investigation.

Whitney continued to post on social media and "falsely" referred to the agreement as an NDA, suggesting it had been forced upon her "as opposed to the result of her resignation proposal."A second demand letter was sent to Whitney asking that she remove the "breaching comments" from social media. After the second demand letter was sent to Whitney, she did an interview with Global News and alleged that she "exited a number of individuals for things like ageism, sexism, discriminatory behaviour, bullying, harassing misuse of systems."Whitney said the employee would be fired if they were a civilian but not if they were an officer.

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