re: Employer distributed a list of unvaccinated, how would you respond?

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how would you respond?

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I’d find a flight of stairs I could fall down or a wet spot on the floor I could slip on. Sue the living shite out of them. Or I’d start documenting every single safety violation I could find. Report it to whatever agency enforces that type of shite.

They want to be woke. Let’s be woke.

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Is this a HIPAA issue?

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SuperSaint

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Reusing needles is a HIPPA issue, FYI

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If your name was on a list of unvaccinated (Covid) employees distributed within your company, how would you respond? This is a large multi-national.

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instant multi-million dollar lawsuit for releasing my personal private medical information without cause or justification.

will they also release a list of all the hoes at the office with STDs or had abortions?

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Maybe, HIPAA requires anyone that has access to your health info, such has health care providers, insures etc, must keep that information confidential.

The maybe comes in because HIPAA privacy rules prohibit the release of protected health information.
If your company considers vaccination status protected health info, there may something there. But I'm sure they ran it through legal first.

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Most of the information contained in an employer’s personnel files and records is not PHI. The regulations state that “Protected health information excludes individually identifiable health information … in employment records held by a covered entity in its role as an employer.” Thus even the information held in employment records by health care institutions is generally not governed by HIPAA.

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There may be other privacy laws that cover that information though.

There is a unintended silver lining to this cloud. Now you have a list of like-minded co-workers who can think for themselves and not just be sheeps following the crowd.

Consider printing out the list and posting a copy in every break room with the title "Intel Club" or something cool. Maybe plan a lunch or in-office party with only those on the list invited.

That would be illegal

I would remind HR of the following:

Generally speaking, there are four circumstances where it may be permissible for an employer to share your private medical information. Note, however, that these are exceptions to the rule, not rules in and of themselves. The exceptions are:

Disclosure to managers and supervisors when the medical information is necessary to provide reasonable accommodations for the employee (mostly applies to the ADA)
Disclosure to safety personnel and first aid providers if the employee would need emergency medical treatment
Disclosure to authorized personnel in the course of a federal or state workplace investigation
Disclosure to authorized personnel in the course of an insurance or worker’s compensation claim


Medical info should always be treated as need to know information. I don’t think a company wide distribution of a list of who has and has not received the vax could be classified as something everyone needs to know.

I would own it proudly.

Reply to all and ask who wants to join the class action.