Various federal and state statutes require employers to keep employee applications and other employment information for a specified period of time.
The person charged with the administration of personnel files and applications should be responsible for ensuring that the required information is retained in conformity with the guidelines below. Note that these guidelines are minimums and that it may be prudent to retain documents for longer periods of time than prescribed by the statute.
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Payroll records for each employee including full name, identification number, home address, date of birth (if under the age of 19), sex, occupation, day and time workweek begins, hours worked each day and week, total daily or weekly earnings, overtime computation, total additions to or deductions from wages, total wages for each pay period covered by the payment. ...Please call us at (312) 960-9400 if this is an error or if you have any questions. |