What Personal Information Access Rights Will California Employees Have Under the California Privacy Rights Act Starting January 1, 2023?

Kristen Mathews and Suhna Pierce authored an article for Pratt's Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report discussing the scope of an employee's right to receive the personal information that the employer has about the employee.

"It is important to note that many CPRA [California Privacy Rights Act] access requests received from employees, former employees, and employee candidates may in fact be veiled pre-litigation discovery attempts," the authors wrote. "That said, employers may not retaliate against employees for making a CPRA request. So, these requests should be handled with great care, with the involvement of both the human resources and legal departments, taking into account how the requestor and their own legal counsel may be planning to use the information they obtain through a CPRA request."

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