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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Records Accessability
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Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 14:36:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  9 14:36:17 1987
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This article is from sun!clt@hplabs.HP.COM (Charlie Tierney)
 and was received on  Thu Jan  8 13:49:32 1987
 
In the State of California, a very strict employer - employee privacy law 
exists.  A former employer may only state the dates of employment, salary 
history, job title and description, and the "Official" reason for 
termination - resignation, etc., of a former employee.

Other information given out can open the former employer up to legal action.

What this means in practice, is the personnel people must get other 
information which they desire by non-verbal means, or through the 
"old-boy(girl) network."  

Talk to someone in a personnel department about the California law.  It has 
been used successfully to sue a number of times.

Charlie Tierney