Employee Personnel File Access Requirements in Wyoming

At a glance

No general private personnel-file right

Wyoming's current labor title does not require an ordinary private employer to let a current or former employee inspect or copy a personnel file. It therefore sets no statewide request form, response deadline, inspection place, copy fee, correction process, post-termination window, or remedy for refusing access.

An employer policy, collective-bargaining agreement, or another record-specific law may provide access, but none creates the general statutory floor measured by this survey.

Reference disclosures are a different rule

W.S. 27-1-113 addresses information flowing from one employer to another. An employer that discloses a former employee's job-performance information to a prospective or current employer receives a rebuttable presumption of good faith and civil immunity. The presumption may be overcome by proof that the disclosed information was knowingly false, deliberately misleading, or malicious.

That liability rule does not require the former employer to show the worker the source records, furnish a copy, or attach the worker's explanation to later disclosures.

What trips people up

The word “rebutted” in § 27-1-113(b) refers to rebutting an employer's good-faith presumption in a disclosure dispute. It is not a right to place an employee rebuttal in the personnel file.

Likewise, a law governing what an employer may tell another employer does not itself give the employee a right to inspect the documents behind that reference. Payroll, medical, background-report, workers' compensation, public-records, and litigation-production rules are outside this survey.

Common questions

Must a Wyoming private employer produce the file on written request?

Not under a general Wyoming personnel-file statute. Employer policy or a collective-bargaining agreement may be broader.

Does § 27-1-113 give a former employee a copy right?

No. It concerns employer liability for job-performance disclosures, not access to the underlying file.

Can an employee add a written rebuttal to the file?

Wyoming's labor title creates no general private-sector procedure requiring an employer to attach or transmit an employee rebuttal.

Statutes and sources

• W.S. 27-1-113: employer immunity for specified former-employee job-performance disclosures and rebuttal of the good-faith presumption — official Title 27 PDF (accessed July 12, 2026).