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Do you have the right to tell your employer that a co-worker has AIDS?
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∙ 16y ago
Moral rights and legal rights may very well be at odds here. In most countries, you undoubtedly have a legal right to tell an employer (or anyone else) that someone has AIDS .. and, in most countries, that person will also have the right to sue you if you cannot substantiate your claim, your claim is untrue or if you are using privileged information in order to substantiate your claim. Bearing in mind that being around (or even touching) someone who has AIDS does not generally constitute any sort of health risk; you would need to ask yourself what qualifications you have to determine that you co-worker has AIDS, what YOUR motivation is, whether you are betraying a confidence and what purpose can possibly be served by telling the employer. In most cases, the answer will probably be that you are not qualified, that the motivation is questionable and that - if the employee has not already felt the need to tell the employer - no purpose can possibly be served. If your interest is in any way selfish, or malicious, then you will also have to face the very real possibility that your allegation will be seen in that light and could have very serious repercussions for you. It may even be that the employer already knows and quite correctly considers that they have neither a legal right, nor any moral obligation, to make that knowledge generally available you, or anyone else. Unless the health of others is being put at direct risk (which will only normally be the case if the person suffering from AIDS is working in a medical profession and conducts certain invasive procedures), you have no legal or moral obligation to tell the employer .. and therefore probably should not.
One final point: Do you really mean HIV? Most people who are HIV-positive are not suffering from AIDS. If you really mean HIV - or you think that the terms HIV and AIDS are generally interchangeable - then you really should question your own knowledge and qualification to make such an allegation.
Wiki User
∙ 16y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoIn most workplaces, the presence of a person with AIDS is not a hazard and the employees do not have a right to know that a person has that disease.
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