Your personnel file includes employment documents, such as your job description, annual personnel evaluations, and if applicable, record of any disciplinary actions you’ received. Your employer may refer to personnel files when considering promotions or disciplinary action. To ensure accuracy, it is important to be aware of which records are in your file.
As a public employee, you are entitled to review your personnel file. Utah State Code 67-18-1, grants you the “right to examine and make copies of documents in [your] own personnel files.” If you want to look at your personnel file, you must request so with your agency’s human resources representative. A human resources representative or designee will be present when you examine your file. If you want to make copies of anything in your file, we suggest keeping the copies at your home.
If you have any questions or concerns about your personnel file and how to access it, reach out to your UPEA representative or call the office at (801)-264-8732.