Employee's Right to View Personnel Files

Wildsporty · July 2006

Does anyone have a list of which states allow employee's to view thier personnel files and which states do not?

Thanks
Shirley

HCCADC · July 2006

I do not have a list, but I know that Pennsylvania requires you to let current employees view their personnel file.

Wildsporty · July 2006

Thank you,
From another forum I found that the states of Oregon,California, Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, Delaware, New Hampshire, and Utah have laws allowing the employee to view their files.

The states of New Jersey and Maryland do not allow the employees to view their files.

Virginia had a House Bill HB62 to address it but it failed so they also do not have a law to allow employees to view their personnel files.

Does anyone have more to offer. I am trying to compile a list of all the states that do and do not for my use and for anyone else that wishes it.

Shirley

DB · July 2006

Employees in IL have rights set by state law. The link below will take you to the law (if I did it right).

[url]http://www.state.il.us/agency/idol/laws/Law40.htm[/url]

LarryC · July 2006

Here is the Land of 10,000 Laws Referring to Personnel Records, we must allow employees access to their files. I won't bore you with the details about how often we have to allow access, how the employee asks for permission, how long after the request we have to comply, or what information can be withheld from access. Just suffice to say that our Elected Elite were very thorough when they conjured this thing up.

One nice feature of this law is that it allows the employer or a representative to be present during the EE's access. I think this is nice because then I don't have employees barging into my office and ransacking my files at all hours.

ray a · July 2006

NY allows ee's to view files.

Wildsporty · July 2006

Thanks for all your help. I found the list it was on the AHI site in the reports file. Thanks to everyone that answered. Someone on the FindLaw HR Forum directed me. If anyone is interested it has all the states and DC.

[url]http://www.ahipubs.com/[/url]

Shirley

Employee's Right to View Personnel Files

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