§905.  Employee access to records

A.  The Louisiana Workforce Commission may make available, upon written request by an employee, the employee's wage and employer information.  This information shall be provided to the employee or his representative, for lending purposes, tenant screening and insurance underwriting only.

B.  The Louisiana Workforce Commission may allow, at the request of the employee, the electronic transmission of the employee's records, directly or through a qualified third-party vendor as defined by the administrator.  Such records shall be provided only on an individual inquiry basis and shall not be maintained or reported with other data.  Any costs incurred by the commission in providing electronic access to an employee's wage and employment records to a third party shall be paid entirely by the third party.

C.  The Louisiana Workforce Commission shall have the authority to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Section including assurance for the security of data.

D.(1)  Pursuant to this Section, the electronic employment records which the Louisiana Workforce Commission may make available shall be only those records which would otherwise be available to the employee who signed a written authorization for those records.  Nothing herein shall authorize any vendor to breach the firewall or secure environment of the Louisiana Workforce Commission's computer systems.

(2)  Data shall be exchanged only under strictly controlled conditions.  It shall be destroyed after all legitimate uses have been made of it.  Secondary release of confidential or privacy-protected data by the vendor for use other than those purposes authorized by this Section shall be strictly prohibited.

(3)  Any violation of this Subsection shall be subject to those same penalties as provided for in R.S. 23:75(C)(3).

E.  Should any lawsuit be filed by a party who has a cause of action based upon the provisions of this Section, the suit shall name the vendor and suit shall be brought in a state court of competent jurisdiction and venue.  The vendor shall indemnify the Louisiana Workforce Commission of any damages, including attorney fees and court costs, associated with a cause of action filed pursuant to this Section, and any associated cost from providing data to a third party vendor shall likewise be indemnified to the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

Acts 2012, No. 822, §1.