Private personnel placement service information is confidential and must be considered and protected as follows:
All records and files of the private personnel placement service of all applicants, all customers, all job orders, which include their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and all related data for each, is confidential and belongs to the firm regardless of the medium on which it is recorded. The improper use or removal from the firm of all or any part of this data by a current or former employee is prohibited without written authority from the owner of the private personnel placement service and its use by a former employee is prohibited for a period of one hundred eighty days from the date of that person's separation from the firm.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-437; 1968 (55) 2846; 1981 Act No. 107 Section 1; 1985 Act No. 149, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 41 - Labor and Employment
Chapter 25 - Private Personnel Placement Services
Section 41-25-10. Short title.
Section 41-25-20. Definitions.
Section 41-25-40. Duties of licensees.
Section 41-25-50. Prohibited activities or conduct of personnel agencies.
Section 41-25-60. Advertisements in South Carolina by firms located outside its jurisdiction.
Section 41-25-80. Confidentiality of records and files.
Section 41-25-100. Liability for violations; remedies.
Section 41-25-110. State agencies entitled to enforce chapter.