ABSTRACT
Employers collect, maintain, use, and disclose considerable employment information. Employment record privacy and integrity is important for individual employment rights. These records generally contain the employee's personal, employment, and medical history. The methods used for collecting, maintaining, and using employment information differ among employers based upon custom, business needs, and applicable statutory requirements. Employment records contain data collected directly from the employee and others that the employee knew or did know were providing information at the time of hiring involving past employment, medical, educational, and family. Invasion of privacy may result through placing an employee in a false light or publicly disclosing personal private facts contained in employment records. Defamation can be readily applied to privacy problems arising out of employment records. Employers should take precautions to protect employment medical information confidentiality by restricting access only to managerial employees who have a legitimate business interest in obtaining the information.
