On 8/12/08, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So, how many have ever gotten to this final step and had Legal or Risk look
> at the REQUIRED and/or DESIRED retention period and propose a shorter
> retention, because keeping the information around as long as required or
> desired may be a bit more risky to the organization than discarding it and
> taking a chance that it will never be asked for?
In a previous life I worked for a corporation whose HR department want
to retain personnel records forever.  When our governance board met to
review the schedule, our attorneys questioned this, stating that we
should only retain them for the mininum length of time, ACT+6.  The VP
for HR began to argue his case for retaining longer when the HR
attorney chimed in "you guys aren't the ones who have to spend time
defending the company in court."  Case closed, so to speak...

-- 
Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP
Lake Forest, CA
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