Employee File

Job description for the position. job application and/or resume. offer of employment. IRS Form W-4 (the Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate) receipt or signed acknowledgment of employee handbook. performance evaluations.

A personnel file is a paper or electronic folder for storing HR and payroll documents related to new, existing, or past employees. It should include basic employee and compensation information in compliance with federal and state labor laws.

Take an inventory. First, you will need to take an inventory of what you already have for each employee. Figure out what you are missing and from whom. Hold a meeting. Give each employee a personal list of documents you need from them. Follow up and secure files within one week.

Employers should keep all job-related documentation such as hiring records, performance reviews, disciplinary actions and job descriptions in an employee's general personnel file. Consider whether the document would be relevant to a supervisor who may review this file when making employment decisions.

Examples of items that should not be included in the personnel file are: Pre-employment records (with the exception of the application and resume) Monthly attendance transaction documents. Whistleblower complaints, notes generated from informal discrimination complaint investigations, Ombuds, or Campus Climate.

Under California law, employees have the right to inspect and copy certain documents in their personnel files. In addition, employees are entitled to inspect and copy their payroll records. Employees also have the right to receive copies of any employment documents they have signed.

Job description for the position. job application and/or resume. offer of employment. IRS Form W-4 (the Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate) receipt or signed acknowledgment of employee handbook. performance evaluations. forms relating to employee benefits.

However, the law does specify that the file must include records that the employer maintains related to the employee's performance or any grievance concerning the employee. Therefore documents such as disciplinary write-ups, records of verbal warnings, reprimands, performance improvement plans, suspensions,

The personnel file is the employees and the employers complete record of their relationship together. It contains a history from job application right the way through to the exit interview, termination of employment or even retirement. Needless to say, the personnel file is highly confidential.