§ 27-20. Notice to be posted; reports and records.

(a) Every employer, employment agency, and labor organization must keep posted in conspicuous places on its premises, where notices to employees, applicants for employment, and membership are customarily posted, a notice in the form and language approved by the Commission, summarizing the pertinent provisions of this division and how to file a complaint.

(b) Every employer, employment agency and labor organization, subject both to this division and to title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, must furnish to the Commission all reports that are required by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

(c) Every employer, employment agency and labor organization subject to this division must preserve all regularly kept personnel or employment records (including application forms submitted by applicants and other records having to do with hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff or termination rates of pay or other terms of compensation and selection for training or apprenticeship) for the term of the employee's employment and a period of 6 months following termination of employment. Where a charge of discrimination has been filed against an employer, employment agency or labor organization under this division, the respondent must preserve all personnel records, including employment applications, relevant to the charge or action until final disposition of the charge or action. (1972 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 1977 L.M.C., ch. 30, § 11; 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1.)

Editor’s note—Section 27-20 is cited and quoted in Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission v. Phillips, 413 Md, 606, 994 A.2d 411 (2010). Section 27-20 is cited in Edwards Systems Technology v. Corbin, 841 A.2d 845, 2004 Md. LEXIS 31 (2004); in H. P. White Laboratory, Inc. v. Blackburn, 372 Md. 160, 812 A.2d 305 (2002); and in Pope-Payton v. Realty Management Services, Inc., 149 Md. App. 393, 815 A.2d 919 (2003). The above section is described in Broadcast Equities v. Montgomery County, 123 Md. App. 363, 718 A.2d 648 (1998), vacated,Montgomery County v. Broadcast Equities, Inc., 360 Md. 438, 758 A.2d 995 (2000) (Broadcast Equities, Inc. failed to exhaust its administrative remedies before the Human Relations Commission).

Section 27-20, formerly § 27-22, was renumbered and amended pursuant to 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1.

Former Section 27-20, relating to rights of complainant; civil action by county attorney, derived from 1968 L.M.C., Ex. Sess., ch. 19, § 1; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 6; 1977 L.M.C., ch. 30, §§ 7, 11, was repealed by 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1.