Re: Employee Personnel Files

From: Cheryl Nyberg (cnyberg@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 08:47:15 PDT


Subject Compilations of State Laws contains a number of sources that
contain this information. Among the most recent are:

AU Hartsfield, William E.
TI Investigating Employee Conduct.
ED Rev. ed.
PL Eagan, MN
PUB West Group
YR 2001-date
COL 2 vols. Looseleaf.
OCLC 48669153
; 49212301
Vol. 2: App.G1-1 to G1-2, "Appendix G1, Right to Access Personnel File."
 Citations only. Cites to codes. Includes fifteen states.
Vol. 2: App.G2-1 to G2-2, "Appendix G2, Confidentiality of Personnel
 Records." Summaries. Cites to codes. Includes Colorado, Connecticut,
Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
; Note: Updated annually. Available on Westlaw. Previous edition published
in 1988.

AU Kahn, Steven C.
; Brown, Barbara Berish
TI Legal Guide to Human Resources.
PL Eagan, MN
PUB Thomson West
YR 2002-date
COL 1 vol. Looseleaf.
LC KF3319.P4722
LCCN 2002-618156
ANN Appendix. Summaries. Cites to session laws and codes. Covers laws on .
. . personnel records . . . .
Note: Available on Westlaw (LGHR). Previous editions published in 1998,
1994 (1993-94 Nyberg 2448.04), 1990, and 1984. First two editions published
under the title <I>Personnel Director's Legal Guide<D>

AU Steingold, Fred S.
TI The Employer's Legal Handbook.
ED 5th ed. Edited by Amy DelPo and Lisa Guerin.
PL Berkeley
PUB Nolo
YR 2002
COL 1 vol.
LC KF3455.Z9S74 2002
DD 344.7301
LCCN 2002-29593
Pp. 2/6 to 2/11, "State Laws on Employee Access to Personnel Records."
Table. Cites to codes. Covers access, written requests, conditions for reviewing
and/or copying records, and right to insert rebuttal information.
Includes seventeen states. Current as of June 2002.

TI Fundamentals of Employment Law.
ED 2d ed. Karen E. Ford, Kerry E. Notestine, Richard N. Hill, editors.
PL Chicago
PUB American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Practice Section
YR 2000
COL 774 pp.
LC KF3319.F86 2000
DD 344.7301
LCCN 00-20124
Pp. 468-80, "Reference Table Regarding Employee Privacy and Statutory
Individual Rights." Table. Cites to constitutions, session laws, codes,
and regulations. Covers AIDS, arrest records, consumer reports,
fingerprinting, genetic screening, jury duty, medical records confidentiality, nepotism,
personnel records, political activity, polygraphs, privacy, smoking
discrimination, surveillance, voting, whistleblowing, and witness duty.

TI MLRC 50-State Survey: Employment Libel and Privacy Law 2003.
PL New York
PUB Media Law Resource Center, Inc.
YR 2003
COL 1127 pp.
LC KF1266.Z95L485
LCCN 00-234198
Summaries. Cites to codes, court rules, and cases. Covers . . .
records (personnel, medical, and criminal); and
other privacy-related actions. Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S.
(federal). Current as of fall 2002.

AU Finkin, Matthew W.
TI Privacy in Employment Law.
ED 2d ed.
PL Washington
PUB Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
YR 2003
COL 947 pp.
LC KF3457.5.F56 2003
DD 344.7301'25
LCCN 2003-56018
Pp. 717-56, "Access to Personnel Records." Full text. Cites to codes.
Includes twenty-four states and the Virgin Islands.

AU Repa, Barbara Kate
TI Your Rights in the Workplace.
ED 6th ed.
PL Berkeley
PUB Nolo
YR 2002
COL 1 vol.
LC KF3455.Z9R47 2002
DD 344.7301
LCCN 2002-71794
Pp. 5/4 to 5/9, "State Laws on Employee Access to Personnel Records."
Table. Cites to codes. Includes seventeen states. Current as of June
2002.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Rae Nyberg
Reference Librarian
Gallagher Law Library
University of Washington
206/543-7672
cnyberg@u.washington.edu
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Labedz, Elizabeth wrote:

> Good morning!
> One of my attorneys has asked me to find him a book that he can give
> to a client which contains the laws of all 50 states regarding employee
> access to personnel files. Does anyone know of such a creature? Thanks.
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