Posted on 05/17/2021 2:24:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will not ask employees to confirm their vaccination status after allowing them to go maskless indoors following updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a report by the Hill.
In a Friday memo, the DOJ warned its managers not to ask employees about their vaccination status. According to the report, “The new policy, however, is a departure from DOJ guidance in February that said employers have the right to ask employees about their status.”
In an email sent to employees Friday, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for administration said the supervisors and managers “should not ask about an employee’s vaccination status or use information about an employee’s vaccination status or make decisions about how and when employees will report to a workplace instead of teleworking.”
“As we go forward, we ask everyone to respect the wishes of our colleagues and visitors and ensure that anyone who chooses to continue wearing a mask while in department buildings and facilities may continue to do so without interference,” the DOJ also said.
The Hill report indicated the email did “note that employees who would like to continue wearing masks may do so.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It’s because of OSHA.
Government employees won’t be asked about vaccination status. All the rest of us slobs will be asked, everywhere.
Is pointing and laughing at the maskholes a bad thing?
Nope. They deserve all the mockery that we can give them.
Yeah, OSHA is requiring employers who mandate the vaccine to report any adverse reaction event as an OSHA recordable.
Heh! Heh! Heh!
I think OSHA might get a talking to over that. It seems like they might have broken protocol with that decision.
https://www.enr.com/articles/51691-osha-imposes-new-guidance-for-employer-required-covid-19-vaccines
I was LMAO when I saw this. This government is being neutralized!
“Is pointing and laughing at the maskholes a bad thing?”
It’s a good thing. Ridicule is powerful.
How can it possibly not be a violation of HIPPA to require someone to state if they have or have not received an experimental vaccine that has not yet been FDA approved?
Yeah, and HIPPA.
Masks for thee but not for we.
HIPAA is toothless. Always has been.
HIPAA has been litigated in court. Over and over again. HIPAA has never had a private cause of action. You can’t sue ANYONE over a HIPAA violation. You can file a complaint with HHS and the government can investigate it, but there isn’t any such thing as a HIPAA private right of action.
“Every district court that has considered this issue is in agreement that the statute does not support a private right of action.” Acara v. Banks, 470 F.3d 569, 571–72 (5th Cir. 2006).
There is no private right of action under HIPAA, express or implied. Meadows v. United Servs., 963 F.3d 240, 242 (2d Cir. 2020).
No private right of action exists under HIPAA in any event, Lucero v. United States, No. 20-1163, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 6308, at *6 (10th Cir. Mar. 4, 2021)
HIPAA does not provide an express or implied private right of action... Kittel v. Advantage Physical Therapy, No. 19-55690, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 1185, at *3 (9th Cir. Jan. 15, 2021).
HIPAA “provides no private right of action.” Webb v. Smart Document Sols., LLC, 499 F.3d 1078, 1081 (9th Cir. 2007).
HIPAA is not your savior here.
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The term "public servant" is so misleading. I correct people who use it with "public masters" and Inusually get agreement. They make far more, have a guaranteed gold pension, and they seem to never be fired or prosecuted for misconduct.
so, “don’t ask. don’t tell.” lives on at the DOJ.
what doesn’t live there: Justice.
HIPPA has always been enforced selectively.
Just like so-called “hate crime”, progressive Leftists in the bureaucracy get to decide what will be enforced, according to whatever is politically correct that day.
HIPPA was originally designed to protect women from having to divulge their pregnancy, gays from having to divulge HIV positivity - and the like.
It would be poetic justice if HIPPA wound up protecting the Right from having to divulge vaccination status - but I doubt the bureaucracy would worry about equal justice under the law.
Double standards are the norm...
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