Leave in Personnel file or not?
HR advocate
2 Posts
Two questions:
1) Emergency contact form asks for any health related info: employee discloses a heart murmur. What would you do with that info?
2) Employee has court orders for protection. Should these be part of the employee file?
1) Emergency contact form asks for any health related info: employee discloses a heart murmur. What would you do with that info?
2) Employee has court orders for protection. Should these be part of the employee file?
Comments
1. Medical information is confidential and must be kept confidentially.
2. People who might normally access information in personnel file (like supervisor) do not need to know about the information.
3. As for the "protection order", I am not sure what that entails, but unless it needs to be generally known by the people you would expect to review the file, I would keep it seperately.
Good Luck
I hope you don't mind if I vent but I am frustrated by having to seperate health, age, race information from an employees file. It seems unnecessary. To me some of these laws are passed down by people that make no considerations for those of us living in the real world doing our best to be fair and honest with all of our employees.
When I hire or promote a person, I do so based on their ability to do the job well. I couldn't care less if their file says they have an allergy to wheat. Discrimination of any form is wrong and bad for business. But discrimination starts in the heart, not the personnel file.
Frustrated in Cannon Beach,
[email]paulknoch@hotmail.com[/email]
frustrating!!!!!!
Good Luck!!