Privacy of Employee Information

Good starting point: all information relating to an employee's personal characteristics or family matters is private and confidential
Information relating to an employee should be released only on a need-to-know basis, or if a law requires the release of the information
All information requests concerning employees should go through a central information release person or office

For a sample policy regarding confidentiality of employee and other information, click here.

For a sample policy regarding confidentiality of medical information in particular, click here.