Washington State has long required employers to allow employees to inspect their own personnel files, but the relevant statutes previously did not define what qualifies as a “personnel file” nor ...

Personnel files are maintained by the Office of Human Resources. Personnel files are confidential, and no personally identifiable information about an employee will be disclosed by the Office of Human ...

As an employer, you’re required by federal and state laws to collect certain employee information, from tax forms to job-related documentation, while also limiting who can access that data and how ...

WASHINGTON — At least three personnel files improperly released by the Air Force in the lead-up to last year’s midterm elections belonged to Republican House candidates, the result of an ...

The Office of Personnel Management has pulled employee personnel folders offline while the agency conducts a two-week “computing center upgrade,” a spokeswoman told Nextgov Monday. The outage started ...

On June 10, 2016, Governor John W. Hickenlooper signed Colorado House Bill 16-1432, Personnel Files Employee Inspection Right (the “Bill”), into law. The Bill, which provides certain current and ...

Only substantive verbal warnings should go into an employee's personnel file. In some circumstances, material related to the warning needs to be stored in a separate file. An employee may receive a ...

Whether paper files or electronic personnel records, your human resources department has a duty to protect employees' personal and employment-related information. Confidentiality is critical to the ...

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