Release of employee's personal identifying information
VA employee PII release
Employees
Provides that an employer cannot be required to release employees' home or mobile phone numbers, email addresses, shift times, or work schedules to a third party unless federal or state law, a court order, a warrant, or a subpoena or discovery in a pending case requires it.
- Where
- Virginia
- Citation
- Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:4
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2013-07-01
- Enforced by
- Not stated in the section
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- The section sets no penalty.
- Applies to
- Employers, as to current and former employees' home and mobile phone numbers, email addresses, shift times, and work schedules
Other duties
- Employers are not required to release employee phone numbers, email addresses, shift times, or schedules to third parties except under preemptive law, court order, warrant, or subpoena or discovery.Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:4(B)-(C)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Effective date inferred from Virginia's default July 1 effective date for regular-session acts; enacting bill page not checked. History: 2013, c. 495.
Research reference, not legal advice.