Sick leave

Sick leave

In a Union based job there is a policy that
states any employees who call out more than 4
times in a year will be placed on a ‘sick
list’. Any sick time used after the initial 4
will require a doctors note to return to work.

The head of the company non-union member
sends a memo out to the organization reviewing
this policy and along with it sends a list of
the names of the people on the list,included
the amount of days they have called out sick,
and counted FMLA in those numbers.

Is it legal to have this list disclosed to
everyone or was HIPPA violated? I can
understand if managers need to know this
information but the current list went out to
the whole company.

Asked on April 24, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, Maine

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