Employee Privacy: District of Columbia

Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.

Authors: Stuart R. Buttrick and Tareen Zafrullah, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Summary

This guide highlights key aspects of District of Columbia law impacting privacy in the workplace. It covers wiretapping and monitoring communications, employee testing, marijuana, smoking in the workplace, common law invasion of privacy claims, data breaches, breastfeeding, personnel files access and disclosure, arrest records and criminal history inquiries, mandatory background checks and credit checks.