Amid a work culture described as “increasingly stressful” due COVID-19 policies, one Bank of America employee has also reported that when using the corporation’s vaccination status tool, one must waive one’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rights to proceed. “If you are like most people and you don’t read the fine print, you are going to miss it,” the employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Epoch Times. After logging into the software to submit the employee’s unvaccinated status, the employee stopped to read the terms and conditions. “There are repeated claims of confidentiality in the employee communications, but the fine print of the mandatory vaccination tool states that individual HIPAA rights are waived by using the tool,” the employee said. HIPAA, passed in 1996, protects the medical information of an individual, preventing health care providers from sharing a patient’s information with anyone other than …
Bank of America Employee Describes ‘Increasingly Stressful’ Working Conditions and Mandatory Waiving of HIPAA Rights
December 14, 2021
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