It depends on what types of business are being conducted via e-mail. If, for example, your human resources department uses e-mail to communicate about hirings and firings, then certain Federal age discrimination statutes might apply to those communications and your company would be obligated to keep those communications for a period of > 1 year.
If your company does creative designs and files patents to protect certain apparel designs, intellectual property communications surrounding those designs/patents may need to be retained indefinitely. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephens, Tara [mailto:Tara.Stephens@;carters.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:52 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > Is email retention legally required for a certain period of time now? > We don't currently have a policy for email retention - we keep monthly > backups for 1 year. The only information that I can find (and I may not > be looking in the right places) says that retention is based on your > company's communicated policy. We're an apparel company, so it's not > like there's other special retention requirements on us. My bosses just > decided this was important. > > Thanks. > Tara _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
