Labor and Public Employees Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEE ACCESS TO ELECTRONICALLY RECORDED PERSONNEL FILES
SUMMARY: This act adds electronic mail and facsimiles to the documents a private employer must keep in an employee's personnel file. By law, if an employer keeps personnel files, an employee's file must contain papers, documents, and reports that the employer uses, or once used, to determine the employee's eligibility for employment, promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, or disciplinary or other adverse personnel action. Such documents include employee evaluations or reports about the employee's character, credit, and work habits. By law, employers must allow an employee, upon written request, to inspect his own personnel file.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2003