Caroline Bruneau reports: The European Aviation Safety Agency has begun to consider new recommendations related to medical privacy in response to the suicide flight of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, EASA chief Patrick Ky revealed during a recent press breakfast organized in Paris by French aviation journalists association AJPAE. Ky revealed the agency has consulted with psychiatrists as part…
Category: Workplace
EEOC Decides Anonymity Policy Went a Little Too Far
FEDweek reports: The EEOC has revised a policy aimed at protecting the privacy of federal employees who bring complaints of workplace bias and other violations under that agency’s authority, saying its solution made it difficult to use its decisions. The EEOC in 2013 stopped using the complaining employee’s real name in the captions of its…
UAE: Officials cleared of privacy breach face fresh court action
Haneen Dijani reports from Abu Dhabi: Three government workers who were cleared of breaching female employees’ privacy will appear in court again after the Court of Cassation referred the case back to appeals. The Emirati head of a federal authority, A K, and an Al Ain branch manager, M A, and a Lebanese IT expert, P, were…
Retired Mounties sue RCMP over disclosure of their mental health records
Keith Fraser reports: A class action lawsuit filed in Vancouver alleges that the RCMP has breached the privacy of a number of Mounties by wrongfully disclosing their mental health records. The suit says that the disclosure of the records in 2012 was done to undermine the work of Dr. Michael Webster, a longtime RCMP psychologist…