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Dear all I've recently been talking to my Personnel department about retention of documentation. They have drawn to my attention the Home Office guidance on documentation for migrant workers. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/employersandspon sors/pbsguidance/ (and see Appendix D). As I read it this guidance says that if a migrant worker applies for a post the details of all other shortlisted applicants (emails, CVs, names, addresses and the helpful "etc") should be kept for the duration the migrant is sponsored. I'm told that for us this is likely to be a five year period, and that many people prefer to then continue with migrant status, so potentially we are keeping for personal details of people who didn't get a job here for 10 years, which seems a tad over the top to me. Has anyone else picked up on this? Are you updating your retention schedules accordingly? Or are you assuming that the word "guidance" in the document title is pretty much synonymous with "advice" and ignoring it? Many thanks Sara Sara Stock University Records Manager University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ Tel: (01206) 874853 E-mail: sstock (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create a full e-mail address) For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]