Labor/Employment
Jul. 15, 2020
Privacy rules can interfere with virus contact tracing
A tension exists between public health efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus on the one hand, and employee privacy rights on the other.
Privacy regulations that ban employers from identifying workers who test positive for COVID-19 might be standing in the way of effective contact tracing, especially at sites where workers can't consistently distance from each other or get timely access to testing, representatives of farmworkers say.
Their concerns highlight a tension that often comes up in conversations about contact tracing in the workplace, which exists between pu...
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