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Article: Employee privacy suit upheld: court rejects employer claim that suit blocked by exclusive remedy. (federal court upholds workplace privacy rights in decision against Arandell Corp)
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- Business Insurance
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- May 25, 1998
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MILWAUKEE - A recent federal court ruling exposes a new gap in the exclusive remedy provision of Wisconsin's Worker's Compensation Act.
The ruling upholds the privacy rights of a former bindery worker under another Wisconsin law governing privacy. It also allows him to continue suing his former employer, a catalog printing company, for inappropriately revealing information about his chronic liver condition.
The ruling marks the most recent threat to the integrity of the exclusive remedy doctrine, which is the shield built into the workers compensation system to protect employers from being sued for damages by workers who are injured on the job (BI, May 19, ...