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Although the Personnel Files Act limits inspection rights to "any person currently employed", it does not prohibit an individual from obtaining access when the individual makes a request contemporaneously with termination or within a reasonable time immediately following termination.
Beitman v. Dept of Labor and Industry, 675 A.2d 1300 (Pa. Cmwlth 1996). Remember that disciplinary records that may form a basis for defense of a legal claim should be included in the personnel file unless prepared in anticipation of litigation. If documents are not in the personnel file when inspected by a former employee, an argument can be made that they were fabricated after the fact.
