Get Gaining Access To The Workplace

Unless you have an express agreement to the contrary, you are an at will employee. As such, your employer can discipline you in any way it wishes and for any lawful reason it wishes at any time, and there is no duty to provide you with notice or an opportunity to be heard about the issue. Unfair? Yes.

Under the Bullard Plawecki Right to Know Act, there is a six month deadline for placing such documentation in an employee's file. Too often employers get to the point of terminating an employee, but don't have documentation to show that they have supportable reasons for doing so.

1) A company is under no obligation to provide anyone, including the affected employee, with a copy of any write-ups, disciplinary notes, the personnel file more generally, etc. 2) The company's notes or write-up is not a legal document, and so have not legal effect per se.

Posting trade secrets or confidential business information online can violate confidentiality agreements or employer policies and handbooks, and can therefore be grounds for termination. Employee harassment on social media, including sexual harassment, may also be grounds for dismissal.

Employee access to records: Upon request, current employee may inspect personnel file at least once per year. ... Copying records: Employee or former employee may request a copy of the personnel file. Employer can require the employee to pay reasonable copying costs.

Providing copies of disciplinary action to an employee may be required in your state or as part of a union negotiation. ... Upon request, the employee has a right to a copy. In other cases, union negotiations may require an employee being disciplined to receive a copy of the signed document.

If your employer does disclose your records, you may have a right to sue them for any damages caused. Should your rights be violated by your employer's disclosure of your confidential records, you may be able to bring suit against it for an invasion of privacy or other similar civil action.