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Are You Ready for GINA?

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) goes into effect November 21. Are you ready?

In short, GINA imposes strict confidentiality rules on genetic information and prohibits:

  • discrimination based on genetic information;
  • employers from collecting genetic information, with very narrow exceptions;
  • health insurers and plans from requiring genetic testing and from discriminating  based on genetic information in enrollment and premium-setting; and
  • retaliation.

Here are some handy GINA resources:

  • Click here for our official GINA Cheat Sheet, which summarizes the key aspects of the law on one page.
  • Click here for our GINA FAQ answers.
  • Click here to print out or order the EEOC’s revised Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster, updated to include GINA.
  • Click here to read the law in its entirety.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 11:18 am and is filed under Employment Law News, GINA, Gender Discrimination, Genetic Information. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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One Response to “Are You Ready for GINA?”

  1. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) Effective November 21 « The Laconic Law Blog Says:
    November 11th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    [...] (GINA) goes into effect November 21, 2009.  The Manpower Employment Blawg has a post about GINA here.  Our previous posts on GINA are here and here. Contributed by Eric A. [...]

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