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When employees publicize their own confidential health information it’s no longer confidential.

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I’ll go ahead and file this one under “duh.”

If an employer inquires about an employee’s medical condition, the Americans with Disabilities Act mandates that it be job-related or consistent with business necessity. Even then, an employer must treat any medical information obtained from a disability-related inquiry or medical examination, including any information that an employee voluntarily discloses, as a confidential medical record.

An employee who claims that their employer violated the ADA’s confidentiality provisions must prove three things:

Their employer obtained their medical information through employment-related medical examinations and inquiries, The employer did not treat that information as

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