Employee Health Information

Instructions and help about Employee Health Information

Welcome everyone, this is Amer Mustaq from You Counsel. Today, we'll talk about some of the circumstances in which you may be required to share your medical information with your employer if you're an employee, or if you are an employer what are the circumstances in which you can ask your employees to disclose their personal medical information, and what is the extent of that sharing? We’ll begin with a disclaimer that this course is not legal advice, so, if you have any specific questions you should contact a lawyer or a paralegal. We’ll begin with the key principle and will use this key principle so that it may be easy for you to remember the key concepts of this lecture. And what I want you to sort of carry, and it's said in the loose terms, but the employer does not have a right to the diagnosis, but may have a potential right to the prognosis. And we'll talk about these terms but I think it's generally easy to remember that no right to diagnosis, and maybe some right to progno