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.

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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. [...]