WHAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN WHEN YOU CALL IN SICK
I’ll bet that what happened in this recent case is very, very common. An employee, Jade, called in to say she needed to be hospitalized due to stomach pains and needed an appointment she had scheduled for that day reassigned. A supervisor (OS) other than the employee’s own took the call and told the employee’s mentor (CTE) about the stomach pains. And then she shared the information with another supervisor. The mentor told two other non-supervisory employees, who then called Jade. Jade filed a discrimination complaint alleging that sharing her medical information violated the Rehabilitation Act and EEOC just ordered the agency to figure out how big of a check to send her for that violation. Here is why. Continue reading