Best Practices for Maintaining Employee Privacy Regarding COVID-19
MSK Client Alert
March 17, 2020
The situation surrounding COVID-19 is, to the say the least, fluid and scary. The ultimate outcome of the disruption to the business community is also unclear. There are nonetheless a couple of topics we can talk about right now with some degree of certainty on which businesses may want to focus as we all struggle to deal with the very human toll of this pandemic. One is employee privacy and is addressed in this edition. The cybersecurity topics worthy of immediate attention will be covered in a subsequent blog post.
We start here with the confidentiality obligation of employers regarding information about the health of their employees. If someone on your staff becomes infected...