Illinois firemen, police, and city service workers Privacy Violations
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Illinois firemen, police, and city service workers
Attorneys have been investigating police, fire departments, and city service workers' rights regarding claims from Illinois residents that they were asked about their family medical history during either the application process or their employment.• Firemen,
• Police,
• Illinois City Service Workers
The Illinois Genetic Information Protection Act (also known as GIPA) does not allow an employer to ask about your family's health history, since it violates the privacy rights of the individuals in your family who have not given consent to their medical conditions being shared.
What are GIPA and GINA? What's the Difference?
• GIPA - Illinois Genetic Information Protection Act
GIPA, or the Genetic Information Protection Act, is an Illinois law that seeks to protect genetic information of Illinoisians. The protection is provided for individuals' privacy and non-discrimination based on their "genetic" information, as defined by HIPAA. Generally, the law does not allow employers to make decisions based on certain HIPAA defined "genetic" factors such as RNA, DNA, proteins, chromosomes, metabolites, mutations, or chromosomal changes. It also prohibits the release of some of this private information to anyone other than the person being genetically tested. This is similar to how personally identifiable information is protected.
• GINA - Illinois Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act? Also known as GINA - the law aims to protect the rights of all United States citizens from employers who might otherwise fire, not hire, or otherwise treaty unfairly on the basis of genetic information or family medical history. According to the national "GINA" law, "genetic" information can be data about a gene test, historical medical information in your family, gene tests of a family member, genetic information about fetus, embryo or reproductive information of an individual.
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