Recently terminated employees have no right to access their personnel files, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
In a unanimous June 20 decision in Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, the justices found that the Inspection of Employment Records Law did not entitle Elizabeth Haubrich to review her file because the act’s definition of “employee” excludes former employees. The opinion referred to the law as the Personnel Files Act.
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