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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

While some variance may occur between companies, certain papers commonly belong in these files and some definitely do not. Agreements related to the use of a company car or business credit card. Payroll records for money or pay-related information such as: Timesheets. Payroll deduction forms. Criminal history.

Filing 121
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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

If so, then you’ll definitely want to have the proper documents on-hand to defend your managers. Confidential documents include medical files, tax documents, employee benefits , payroll records, and more. The FLSA has a few other regulations related to payroll documents besides retaining them for three years.

Filing 52