Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2012 Cumulative Supplement to “Privacy in Employment Law, Third Edition”

Bloomberg BNA has published the 2012 Cumulative Supplement to Privacy in Employment Law, Third Edition, offering guidance on employee/employer rights and the limits of employer authority in securing information about applicants and employees, disclosing such information, and controlling activities in the U.S. workplace.

This treatise serves as a dependable reference on the law of privacy as addressed fragmentally in statutes and court decisions. The author has assembled citations, definitions, practical examples, and guidance to help practitioners assess present legislation and judicial thinking on key issues in employment privacy. Privacy in Employment Law provides lists of relevant state laws addressing topics relating to workplace privacy, including drug testing, access to personnel files, lie detection, electronic monitoring, and more, in addition to offering text of selected foreign statutes and the European Union (EU) directive on privacy law.

The new 2012 Cumulative Supplement offers further guidance on privacy topics such as:

• Violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• Accessing and downloading personal communications from former employees’ computers
• How to best handle hiring decisions based on results from credit and background checks
• Sensitive medical information and ADA confidentiality
• Failure to follow HIPAA disclosure rules
• Medical marijuana laws
• Whether or not an employer may refuse to hire an applicant who had sued a prior employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Possession of firearms locked in a vehicle on the employer’s premises

Privacy in Employment Law, Third Edition with 2012 Cumulative Supplement was authored by Matthew W. Finkin, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, where his teaching centers on labor and employment law, in both a domestic and comparative context. This title is available for sale directly from Bloomberg BNA and is also available on the Bloomberg Law legal research system.