Common use of Union Access to Employee Personnel Files Clause in Contracts

Union Access to Employee Personnel Files. SECTION 1. The Union and the Company reaffirm their commitment to maintain optimum confidentiality for employee personnel records. The parties, moreover, appreciate that the privacy of employee records would be impaired by improvident access to and/or duplication or publication of materials or information contained in employee personnel files. Consistent with these concerns, the Union agrees that it will be judicious in requests for access to or copies of materials in individual employee personnel files and that it will handle all such materials with an abiding respect for the need to maintain optimum confidentiality of personally identifiable information balanced against its obligation as bargaining representative to process grievances and administer the General Agreement.