Carnduff, Sask., company with spy-cam in washroom fined

A computer company in Carnduff, Sask., pleaded guilty to violating workplace harassment rules after a hidden camera was discovered near a toilet in its staff washroom.

SE Ventures, operating as ITComputes, was fined $2,100 in Estevan provincial court on April 18.The charge was under the Saskatchewan Employment Act.

According to a provincial government news release, the occupational health and safety branch investigated in December 2014 after an employee discovered the hidden camera.

The case was alsohandled, last year,as a criminal matter.

In March 2015, the Carnduff businessman who ran the computer store and pleaded guilty to seven counts of voyeurism was sentenced to house arrest and fined $1,400.

Court heard heard Brian Cowie placed a "nanny cam" in the washroom of his store and spied on his female employees, at least one who was a teenager.

He had told court he had been doing this for a period of four to five years.