No employess are NOT allowed to see medical records. In fact since the federal HIPPA Privacy Law went into effect NO one is allowed ANY AND ALL information about a persons physical and mental health with out the client first signing a release form first and that release form expires every 6 months. Back in march 2004 a DHS caseworker found a therapy letter I had put into some stuff for my son. the therapist was delivering the stuff for me to DHS because everytime I did the caseworker was harrassing me to admit to something I did not do to my son and for which I have been since cleared of. Anyway I forgot to tell my therapist it was in there and she forgot to look just in case. The caseworker say the envelop addressed to my therapist, opened it, read it, copied and distributed it to all on the case. Long story short the judge ruled with out an active release form it was illegal for the caseworker to have done what she did. I also contacted the caseworkers supervisor and the district supervisor and the civil rights department (since breaches of HIPPA fall into their jurisdiction) the outcome was that the caseworker was placed under investigation, removed from my case when it was found she had breached my rights and other laws and rules of ethics on my case, her other cases were put under review while she was placed on administrative leave and fired. DHS now has to promenently display the privacy code and phone numbers and addresses and complaint proceedures. The civil rights office is also keeping my complaint and outcome on file in case there are others with this same problem. There are also United states disabilites act which states a person can not be stopped from obtaining schooling and job opportunities based on physical and or mental disability

Your medical and mental health records are now safe and can not be used against you in obtaining schooling and jobs.