I am in negotiations with my current supervisor/chief of my service and I am a bargaining unit employee. The negotiations regard changing tours of duty to achieve a family/worklife balance. there are 3 people who i provided personal information to who i consider co workers. the only other person i spoke to regarding some personal information is my service chief. i only inolved my service chief because i thought by explaining my situation i would get some flexibility/understanding. that did not happen.

we had a union meeting with my supervisor and service chief. my service chief made a descriptive innappropriate comment in this meeting regarding a personal issue which had not been provided to the members present in the past by me.

after the union meeting. the supervisor acting of behalf of this chief spoke to a co-worker about the meeting, discussed personal details of my life including what the service chief innappropriate comment topic. all of this regards a current serious health care issue of my spouse.

i have a few questions:
did my service chief and supervisor violate my hippa rights?
if indeed there are people that i have trusted in the past and are priviledged to this kind of information--does that give my supervisor or my service chief a right to bring up the subject with them and discuss as they please?

can i file a hippa violation complaint against my supervisor and service chief or can i file it against the entire group of people who are now have information that they were not provided by me and are now openly discussing at will and not in my presence?

justcurious55

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Employers and Health Information in the Workplace

my understanding of HIPAA is that no, your supervisor is not subject to the same privacy rules as your health care provider and that was not a violation.