[naili]

Can company give your personal information to another person when that person don't even work for that company?

[ScottGem]

What info and under what circumstances?

[naili]

Like your name, address, employment history, telephone, social security number and more.

[ScottGem]

No its not OK to give out your SSN. As to the other information it would depend on the circumstances.

Did this happen to you or are you just speculating?

[naili]

This happen to my husband. Thanks Scott!. :-)

[excon]

Hello n:

I agree with my friend, Scott. It's NOT OK, to give out your SS, but I don't think it's illegal. However, HOW the information was used MIGHT be illegal, so you need to tell us the REST of the story.

excon

[naili]

Basically someone I know had filed a discrimination against this company and Equal Employment Opportunity. The company send all the employees name, address, ss, birth date and job history to Equal Employment Opportunity. Equal Employment Opportunity forward all the personal information to her.

[ScottGem]

OK, so the person filed suit. As part of that suit was possibly a discovery motion to get information about employees to determine whether there was discrimination. Therefore, its probable the company was compelled to provide the information.

See what I mean abut needing to know the circumstances. Now, what your husband needs to do is get a copy of the court order and see what info was requested, whether it was by court order and whether the company exceeded the order.

[naili]

Thank you SCOTTGEM!!

[JudyKayTee]

It's legal and happens all the time - as Scott said, it's part of the discovery process.

Was it subpoenaed, Court order, surrendered by agreement?

[Fr_Chuck]

Providing it to the EOOC is not providing it to "some other person" it is providing it to a government department that does investigation. Your information is sent to many government agenicies, unemployment, social security, workers comp insurance and in some cases many other departments