Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania

Employers are supposed to segregate your medical information from your personnel file and they are not allowed to disclose that information without your authorization except in very limited exceptions. I would recommend that you contact an employment lawyer in your area to pursue your remedies.

Off the top of my head, I cannot recall whether you have a private cause of action that would allow you to seek damages form your former employer, a right sto seek enforcement and the imposition of fines by a governement agency, or both. I imagine that it would be both and that your private causee of action would be based upon violation of privacy rights and interference with your potential job.

You may also have a cause of action under the Americans with Disabilities Act against a potential employer who refused to interview, consider or hire you becasue of a health condition. The condition must qualify as a disability under the definition of the ADA and you will need to show that you could perform the job despite that disability with or without reasonable accomodations.

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