Originally Posted by
gloopy
Under the TA is a pilot obligated by law to waive his/her HIPPA rights? IOW, is a CBA even enforceable from the company's standpoint if and when it tries to overrule a rather strong federal law?
I asked my labor lawyer cousin the same thing (he works for a company similar to Ford & Harrison in STL), and he said there's no precedent for a CBA trumping HIPPA. FWIW, I showed him the language and he didn't interpret it as a demand to release actual medical documentation directly to a company representative. He said if it were him, he wouldn't worry about it.
He was not similarly unconcerned with the "good faith basis" clause...