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7 May, 2020

Privacy and Employee Issues During the New COVID-19 Pandemic Era

The global pandemic has created unique risks for handling employees’ exposure to, or positive testing for, COVID-19. To ensure a safe workplace, companies have to address delicate issues surrounding employee safety. The United States does not have a federal privacy law to address this specific situation (unlike Europe and Canada) and the treatment of employees personal information. Interestingly, the HIPAA laws do not cover employers...

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26 Mar, 2020

COVID-19: Employee Risks and Privacy

Chief compliance officers and human relations leaders are facing enormous challenges in this COVID-19 pandemic. The shut-down of offices and orders to employees to work from home or “tele-work” creates a unique set of risks. Many companies already permit employees to work from home. But we have never experienced a requirement that employees work from home. Some jobs cannot be done from home, while others...