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This letter constitutes my Order in your appeal from the decision of Ontario Hydro (the "institution") regarding your request made under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1987, as amended (the "Act"), for a correction of personal information.
On January 5, 1990, the undersigned was appointed Assistant Commissioner and received a delegation of the power to conduct inquiries and make Orders under the Act.
The appeal file indicates that on October 19, 1989, you wrote to the institution asking that your exit performance review be corrected or removed from your personnel file at the institution and that the recommendation concerning rehire be changed to "yes" from "no".
On November 16, 1989, the institution's Freedom of Information and Privacy Co-ordinator responded to your request as follows:
The correction will not be made because no new information has been provided which would change the (location of workplace identifier) Supervisor's opinion of your performance while you were employed at the (named location).
In accordance with section 47(2) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, you may prepare a statement of disagreement which will be attached to your exit performance evaluation. You may also require that the statement be sent to any person to whom the record was disclosed in the last twelve months.
On November 27, 1989, you appealed the decision of the institution. Notice of the appeal was provided to you and the institution on that day.
As you know, as soon as your appeal was received an Appeals Officer was assigned to investigate the circumstances of the appeal and to attempt to mediate a settlement. The Appeals Officer obtained and reviewed the record in question. The relevant part of the record consists of two pages. The first page is an inter-office memo from the personnel department of the institution to a named supervisor, which asked the supervisor to rate you on work performance, attendance, punctuality and co-operation with others. After that came the question, "Would you rehire?" The answer to that question was, "No (See Comments)". The second page of the record at issue consists of the "Comments" concerning you, which explain, from the supervisor's viewpoint, the recommendation that you not be rehired.
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