LD 411
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notes relating to the employee that the employer has in the employer's
possession. Records in a personnel file may be maintained in any form
including paper, microfiche or electronic form. The employer shall take
adequate steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of these
records. An employer maintaining records in a form other than paper
shall have available to the employee, former employee or duly authorized
representative the equipment necessary to review and copy the personnel
file. Any employer who, following a request pursuant to this section,
without good cause fails to provide an opportunity for review and copying
of a personnel file, within 10 days of receipt of that request, is
subject to a civil forfeiture of $25 for each day that a failure
continues. The total forfeiture may not exceed $500. An employee,
former employee or the Department of Labor may bring an action in the
District Court or the Superior Court for such equitable relief, including
an injunction, as the court may consider to be necessary and proper. The
employer may also be required to reimburse the employee, former employee
or the Department of Labor for costs of suit including a reasonable
attorney's fee if the employee or the department receives a judgment in
the employee's or department's favor, respectively. For the purposes of
this section, the term "nonprivileged medical records or nurses' station
notes" means all those materials that have not been found to be protected
from discovery or disclosure in the course of civil litigation under the
Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26, the Maine Rules of Evidence,
Article V or similar rules adopted by the Workers' Compensation Board or
other administrative tribunals.


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