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Employer Employee privacy query?

In California. A supervisor calls an employee's contact number, someone answers, the employee is not there but offers to take a message, the supervisor then advices that employee missed a scheduled shift and could be fired and needs to call him.

Has a privacy law been broken here? The employee subsequently has had heated issues with the person who answered this call and a mental breakdown and ended up in the hospital.

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  • !
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Probably, but with such an extreme (and therefore unforeseeable outcome) there will be no remedy, so forget any ideas of huge compensation.

  • Judy
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    It might not have been the best management practice, but no law was broken.

  • 8 years ago

    Sounds like you abandoned your job. Your mental distress is that you forgot to go to work, not that you got sick because of your reaction.

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