Just recently the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (2008) went into effect. There is the potential to use genetic information to discriminate in employment.<\/span><\/p>\n The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) gives the nod to the fact that advances in genetics is crucial, indeed critical, to medical progress. Unfortunately, these advances held the potential to have the information misused against employees. In order to avoid this possibility, Congress passed GINA to ostensibly protect genetic information of workers and ban employment discrimination that may be based on genetic information. <\/span><\/p>\n What does genetic information include? Typically, it is a sign of the possible manifestation of a disease or disorder that may run in an employee\u2019s family. Genetic testing usually takes place in clinical research or other areas that examine human RNA, DNA, proteins, chromosomes and\/or metabolites which detect chromosomal changes, mutations or genotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n Just to avoid some confusion here, according to the Act, it is against the (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just recently the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (2008) went into effect. There is the potential to use genetic information to discriminate in employment. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) gives the nod to the fact that advances in genetics is…<\/span><\/p>\n