(a) No employee assistance professional, employee or state employee shall be required to disclose any information or records concerning or confirming the employee's voluntary participation in an employee assistance program sponsored or authorized by an employer or the state or any of its agencies.
(b) Except as permitted under section 31-128f, no employee assistance program, by itself or its agents or representatives, shall disclose any information or records concerning or confirming an employee's or a state employee's voluntary participation in such program without the prior written consent of the employee or state employee, except where disclosure is necessary to prevent harm to the employee or others.
(c) For purposes of this section, “state employee” means any employee in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government, whether in the classified or unclassified service and whether full or part-time and any employee of a quasi-public agency.
(P.A. 01-29; P.A. 03-187, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 03-187 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “employee assistance professional”, “employee” and “employer” and amended Subsec. (b) by adding “employee” and authorizing disclosure where necessary to prevent harm.
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