Common use of ACCESS TO PERSONNEL FOLDERS AND EVALUATIONS Clause in Contracts

ACCESS TO PERSONNEL FOLDERS AND EVALUATIONS. A. A staff member shall, within five (5) working days of a written request to his or department, have an opportunity to review his/her central personnel history folder in the presence of an appropriate official of the department to examine any criticism, commendation or any evaluation of his/her work performance or conduct prepared by the Hospital during the term of this Agreement. Such examination shall not require a loss of paid time. If requested by the staff member, a non-staff member union representative may accompany the staff member. He/she shall be allowed to place in such file a response of reasonable length to anything contained therein. The Hospital will honor a request made by a staff member for a copy of any derogatory item included in that staff member's folder.