Delaware Tightens Personal Documents Requirements: Employment Law Manual Updated

Authors: Beth P. Zoller and Ashley Shaw, XpertHR Legal Editors

A new Delaware law, effective January 1, 2015, will require employers to take additional steps to safely destroy documents containing personal identifying information that they no longer wish to retain by shredding, erasing, or otherwise destroying or modifying the personal identifying information in those records to make it entirely unreadable or indecipherable. The law applies to paper records as well as electronic records and information stored in the cloud.

Based on this development, the Delaware Privacy and Workplace Security sections of the Employment Law Manual have been updated.