Legal Question in Employment Law in Wisconsin

employment contracts

My husband is a territory sales rep and is about to sign a new employment contract with a company he has worked at for 4 years. The contract spells out his territory among other things. He was told he could not make a copy of the contract, that they would hold the only copy of the contract. Can they do that? Isn't a contract that you sign just as much your property as theirs?


Asked on 1/15/09, 6:14 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Matthew MacKelly Attorney at Law

Re: employment contracts

Each party to a contract should maintain their own copy of the contract. Further, a copy of the contract should go into his employment records, i.e, "personnel file." Under Wisconsin Statute 103.13 (http://nxt.legis.state.wi.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&d=stats&jd=103.13), he has the ability to request his records. So, she should otherwise be able to get the contract that way. If they withhold the contract by such a request and say that it is not part of his "personnel records," I think they may very well be violating the statute.

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Answered on 1/16/09, 2:57 pm


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