Legal Question in Employment Law in California

does an employer have responsibility to protect employee's privicy

is there a law that an employer has to protect an employee's personal information such as social security number, phone number and address? my husbands information was stolen from another employee where he used to work. that person has use this information so far only to to drop him college course, and sent a disturbing email to an instructor.the only proof is that we have is that she admitted to me that she looked up his file at work to get his information. is there any legal action that can be taken.


Asked on 5/22/03, 7:47 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Kirschbaum Law Offices of Michael R. Kirschbaum

Re: does an employer have responsibility to protect employee's privicy

It would probably depend on how the employee got the information. If the employer was reckless and left confidential information accessible for anyone to retrieve, your husband may have a claim. But if it was not reasonably forseeable what the employee did to get the information, I would say there is no case.

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Answered on 5/23/03, 10:14 pm


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