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Are departing employees legally allowed to demand a copy of their personnel files?

03/23/2017

Q. If an employee is leaving the company and they request to take with them a copy of their complete personnel file, do they have the right to receive it? If so, does that include all records from their separate medical file and any confidential files?

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