Employee Consent Form for Disclosure of COVID-19 Diagnosis to others
Has anyone worked on creating a form? Could you share?
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Laura S. Burton | Police Attorney
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Lara, Are you asking if an employee who's been diagnosed with Covid19 is willing to disclose the diagnosis to others? To what purpose? You wouldn't be telling people that Jane Doe has Covid would you? I think without consent you can tell the workforce that a member of the workforce has received a positive diagnosis and that you want others in the workforce to get tested, self quarantine or take such other measures as are medically necessary, but I'd be hesitant to name an employee. I'm assuming by virtue of the test that the health department is informed, but if not, I'd want to be sure there is a protocol to alert the health department for contact tracing, etc. I'm not in this as deep as the rest of you, but I could see some very negative outcomes in naming people. Chuck
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Has anyone worked on creating a form? Could you share?
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Laura S. Burton | Police Attorney
City of Gastonia Police Department | 200 East Long Avenue | P.O. Box 1748 | Gastonia, NC 28053
704-866-6962 ph | 704-866-6892 fax | burton_laura@cityofgastonia.commailto:burton_laura@cityofgastonia.com | www.gastoniapd.orghttp://www.gastoniapd.org
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I have been on a couple webinar calls that suggest an employer can get consent from an employee diagnosed with Covid-19 to disclose his or her name, if that employee so chooses. Apparently some do. The form is supposed to be pretty specific. Disclosure to whom exactly by name and disclosure of exactly what was recommended to be written out, with an acknowledgement that those who learn this information may further disclose it to others. I just hadn't seen an example yet.
You can still inform the workplace of a positive Covid employee without disclosing his or her name and follow the local health department guidelines for sanitizing, sending home other employees, etc. That would be the normal protocol, yes.
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Lara, Are you asking if an employee who's been diagnosed with Covid19 is willing to disclose the diagnosis to others? To what purpose? You wouldn't be telling people that Jane Doe has Covid would you? I think without consent you can tell the workforce that a member of the workforce has received a positive diagnosis and that you want others in the workforce to get tested, self quarantine or take such other measures as are medically necessary, but I'd be hesitant to name an employee. I'm assuming by virtue of the test that the health department is informed, but if not, I'd want to be sure there is a protocol to alert the health department for contact tracing, etc. I'm not in this as deep as the rest of you, but I could see some very negative outcomes in naming people. Chuck
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Laura S. Burton | Police Attorney
City of Gastonia Police Department | 200 East Long Avenue | P.O. Box 1748 | Gastonia, NC 28053
704-866-6962 ph | 704-866-6892 fax | burton_laura@cityofgastonia.commailto:burton_laura@cityofgastonia.com | www.gastoniapd.orghttp://www.gastoniapd.org
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I would also be interested in such a form. Doug
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I have been on a couple webinar calls that suggest an employer can get consent from an employee diagnosed with Covid-19 to disclose his or her name, if that employee so chooses. Apparently some do. The form is supposed to be pretty specific. Disclosure to whom exactly by name and disclosure of exactly what was recommended to be written out, with an acknowledgement that those who learn this information may further disclose it to others. I just hadn’t seen an example yet.
You can still inform the workplace of a positive Covid employee without disclosing his or her name and follow the local health department guidelines for sanitizing, sending home other employees, etc. That would be the normal protocol, yes.
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Lara, Are you asking if an employee who’s been diagnosed with Covid19 is willing to disclose the diagnosis to others? To what purpose? You wouldn’t be telling people that Jane Doe has Covid would you? I think without consent you can tell the workforce that a member of the workforce has received a positive diagnosis and that you want others in the workforce to get tested, self quarantine or take such other measures as are medically necessary, but I’d be hesitant to name an employee. I’m assuming by virtue of the test that the health department is informed, but if not, I’d want to be sure there is a protocol to alert the health department for contact tracing, etc. I’m not in this as deep as the rest of you, but I could see some very negative outcomes in naming people. Chuck
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City of Gastonia Police Department | 200 East Long Avenue | P.O. Box 1748 | Gastonia, NC 28053
704-866-6962 ph | 704-866-6892 fax | burton_laura@cityofgastonia.commailto:burton_laura@cityofgastonia.com | www.gastoniapd.orghttp://www.gastoniapd.org
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I would also be interested in such a form. Doug
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I have been on a couple webinar calls that suggest an employer can get consent from an employee diagnosed with Covid-19 to disclose his or her name, if that employee so chooses. Apparently some do. The form is supposed to be pretty specific. Disclosure to whom exactly by name and disclosure of exactly what was recommended to be written out, with an acknowledgement that those who learn this information may further disclose it to others. I just hadn't seen an example yet.
You can still inform the workplace of a positive Covid employee without disclosing his or her name and follow the local health department guidelines for sanitizing, sending home other employees, etc. That would be the normal protocol, yes.
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Lara, Are you asking if an employee who's been diagnosed with Covid19 is willing to disclose the diagnosis to others? To what purpose? You wouldn't be telling people that Jane Doe has Covid would you? I think without consent you can tell the workforce that a member of the workforce has received a positive diagnosis and that you want others in the workforce to get tested, self quarantine or take such other measures as are medically necessary, but I'd be hesitant to name an employee. I'm assuming by virtue of the test that the health department is informed, but if not, I'd want to be sure there is a protocol to alert the health department for contact tracing, etc. I'm not in this as deep as the rest of you, but I could see some very negative outcomes in naming people. Chuck
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] Employee Consent Form for Disclosure of COVID-19 Diagnosis to others
Has anyone worked on creating a form? Could you share?
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Laura S. Burton | Police Attorney
City of Gastonia Police Department | 200 East Long Avenue | P.O. Box 1748 | Gastonia, NC 28053
704-866-6962 ph | 704-866-6892 fax | burton_laura@cityofgastonia.commailto:burton_laura@cityofgastonia.com | www.gastoniapd.orghttp://www.gastoniapd.org
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