Exam 4: Employee Privacy Rights in the 21st Century

Can employers mandate the policy of genetic testing?

What is a background screening policy?

Discuss why genetic testing is one of the most pressing ethical dilemma employers are facing today.

HIPAA stands for:

Surveillance and eavesdropping are techniques commonly associated with police, spies and military intelligence.

Pre-employment drug testing is typically considered:

Health records usually are maintained in separate HR files, as is appropriate under:

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides protection to public employees.

The testing of human blood and/or urine for the presence of controlled/illegal substances is known as:

In which year was the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)enacted?

Drug testing does not require a specific reason and can be random.

What serious intrusion of employees' privacy has severe ethical implications?

Privacy concerns arise in the context of third-party information requests primarily:

Which of the following is not part of a typical pre-employment drug testing policy?

What is the most common way in which employers intrude upon their employee's privacy?

One of the express purposes of HIPAA's privacy provisions is to:

Increases in incidents of workplace violence and concomitant increases in ______ lawsuits, by customers and co-workers of violent employees, have added urgency to the effort of checking employees' background.

Malice in the context of defamation and invasion of privacy means :

If a former employer withholds relevant information about an employee from his or her new employer, this may actually expose the former employer to:

Malice implies animosity towards somebody in the generic sense.