See my other post here
They were putting the pressure on real hard yesterday so I knew it was coming. I am in gods hands now. Any job leads, in the Denver area for an unvaxed, and proud, patriot would be appreciated. Edited to add my quals. I have done evrything from janitorial to supervisory jobs. Family businesses. Mostly big industrial work places. Power plants, oil and gas, manufacturing operations.
So they fired you, not for refusing the vax, but for refusing to reveal your vax status? That sounds like a HIPPA lawsuit to me. I'm in the same area as you, different industry though, so no leads.
I may be in a similar situation soon. Got the email myself recently about the mandate and supervisor is asking ahead of the mandate deadline if we are going to comply or not. I suppose they are trying to plan ahead.
Apparently your job can ask you if you have an alcohol problem or depression or any other health issue. See that when you get hired? They ask if you are disabled. HIPAA was to stop exes from calling your hospital and getting information from you without your permission. It’s not about asking you for your health information. They can directly ask and you can directly refuse and if it’s an at will state they can directly fire you. A HIPAA violation would be if you worked for a health system and they accessed your records without asking. They can certainly ask me for health information as they always have done.
I’m a nurse so trained in HIPAA and I just want you to have the right information. I certainly don’t agree with them asking you like my employer showed me their vaccine policy. I signed. Then they looked up my health information because I got vaccinated in their system so I asked if they could do that and they said you signed the policy, that gave us permission to access your health records but only for vaccines. In fact the Dept of public health gives any employer your vax status regardless of a policy so fake vax cards won’t work, they look up a nationwide database for when you were vaxxed.
Good info, thanks for that
Yes, but they lump it all together with insubordination, failure to comply , yada yada.