SB 0763 | Provides employers with immunity for providing certain employee information to prospective employers |
Sponsor: | Kinder | |||
LR Number: | S3398.02C | Fiscal Note: | 3398-02 | |
Committee: | Commerce and Environment | |||
Last Action: | 02/17/98 - SCS Voted Do Pass w/SCS SBs 763 & 520 S Commerce | Journal page: | ||
& Environment Committee | ||||
Title: | SCS/SBs 763 & 520 | |||
Effective Date: | August 28, 1998 | |||
SCS/SB 763 - The act authorizes the disclosure of information about current or past employees to new or prospective employers. The same information is available to any former employee upon request. The employer may disclose: dates of employment; pay; job description; wage history; and conditions of separation from the employer's service.
Any employer who discloses the information described above
is immune from civil liability, unless the employer's response is
shown to be false and made with knowledge that it was false or
with reckless disregard for whether such response was true or
false at a time when the employer had serious doubt whether such
response was true.
JOAN GUMMELS