how long do employers keep past employee work history files?

This is a guss forever unless they are lost. where not taking up room employers keep them for tax, insurance and there History
 
It depends on what information are you referring to.

Federal law and some state law like in California require to keep certain records concerning each employee. For instance, name, security number and address are require to be kept for 4 years, medical records are required to be kept during the employment duration and thirty years thereafter, etc.
 
In some cases, forever.
My employer keeps them 10 years then scans them, and a copy of the disc is turned over to a records keeping form, who keeps the disc in an undetground vault forever.
 
They keep them as long as they want to. It depends on the company and how much filing space they have and what kind of a turnover. Most companies keep employee files from 7-10 years of the date the employee leaves the company.
 
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