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HOW TO: Transfer a Staff Employee’s Personnel Record

Summary: Use this information to determine how to transfer a staff employee’s personnel record to their new UCI department.

1Pull the employee’s entire personnel record
  1. This includes the following files:
    • General file
    • Payroll file
    • Confidential file
    • Medical file
2Ensure the files contain the appropriate documents
  1. Refer to the appropriate checklists:
3Determine if the employee has been paid on a contract and/or grant
  1. If Yes, separate out the employee’s payroll file and retain in the department.
  2. If No, purge the employee’s payroll file of all time records that are more than 5 years old.

If an employee is a work-study student, do not purge any timesheets; forward with rest of documents.

4Seal the medical and confidential files
  1. Place the medical and confidential files in a tamper-proof envelope and label with the:
    • name of each file
    • transfer date
    • employee identification number
    • employee name
    • your department name.

These files should remain sealed by the new department until there is a legitimate business need to access the information

5Forward all appropriate files to the employee’s new department
  1. Access the EDB, verify the employee's new UCI department and forward their personnel record to that department in one of the following ways:
    • Hand-delivered by a department representative in a tamper-proof envelope.
    • Interoffice mail in an appropriately secured envelope.

Need an expert? If you have any questions or comments, contact Human Resources at (949) 824-5210, or HRQuestions@uci.edu.

Notice: University policies, procedures and applicable collective bargaining agreements shall supersede information in this document or elsewhere on this site.


Author: Maria V. Teider  Last published: 11/02/2009