How long do Kroger companies (namely Dillon's Grocery Stores that are located in Kansas) hold onto terminated employees' HR records? My ex husband is a former assistant manager who was terminated in 2013 for reasons that might be helpful to me if I am to reopen our daughter's custody case. I plan to ask my lawyer if the information that's possibly contained in his HR file might be helpful for us to have, especially since I've been told by several of his former coworkers, who are reliable sources, that he received a whole slew of warnings and write-ups regarding his behavior prior to being fired, which is something he's, of course, always denied, claiming he was unfairly blindsided by his termination and set up by his accusers and his GM at the time (he was moved around between 4 locations from 2010-2013, so he'd had several GMs). However, I know that there is no way I can get those records myself, and I am concerned that now it might be too late for them to be subpoenaed since all of this occurred so many years ago. Thank you in advance to anyone who might be able to offer any insight!
You might need to get a subpoena to get them unless you actually are allowed to get them.
Generally once you're an employee you're in their system for ever. You'd have to call the store and ask for the hr person they would know more about the system. That or contact your local corporate office and ask for hr they should have a better idea.
Kroger, or any employer for that matter, is not going to release information on any employee without a court order or said employee's written consent. I don't know what you hope to gain from it though unless his behavior at work had an affect on what he did at home. If you're just trying to get dirt on him and I were the judge, I'd throw it out as being inadmissible. Since we're only hearing your side, no one can make a fair judgement.
Thank you for your responses. I thought I was clear in my initial post that I realized that in order to get any records, it would require a subpoena, and that I understood that there's no way they would just be given directly to me. Even if we were still married, no one would be allowed to just hand those over to me. I just didn't know if any of his records would still exist after this many years have passed.
I also stated that I would be asking my lawyer if the information possibly contained in those files would even be helpful in court to begin with, and I think he probably has the expertise to be able to guide me in the right direction regarding what a judge may or may not find to be pertinent to the case.
And yes, him being fired twice (once from Dillons and then two years later at a different grocery store) for allegations of sexual harassment against several girls ages 16-20ish (he was in his 30s) definitely affected things at home and negatively impacted the financial well-being of his children. I consider it as him having made the choice (TWICE) to basically throw his family away for a chance to see some teenage ta-tas. Part of the problem is that I took the high road, being incredibly kind and understanding during our divorce, because I figured he had to have felt badly enough about what he did to us (because what kind of person wouldn't?) and he's still the father of my children, but now he and his newest wife (who knows nothing about me or what he did but has just taken every lie that's oozed out of his mouth as being the truth) are trying to publicly paint me as being an inept parent and have made threats towards my daughter and me regarding our custody schedule that have forced me to quit the part time job I had (that was in addition to my full time job) that allowed me to be able to make ends meet.
So therefore, after 6 years of not asking for any child support because he was in a tight financial situation at the time of our divorce that was similar to mine and I would have felt guilty watching him struggle more in order to be able to pay me, I am considering filing for child support since he has taken away my ability to earn the supplemental income I'd been depending on since 2019. I think there's a chance that showing a history of him making selfish choices that are not in our child's best interest might help my cause. And either way, it's worth asking my lawyer about. In regard to the statement, "Since we're only hearing your side, no one can make a fair judgement," I was never asking for judgment, fair or otherwise, to begin with. I just wanted to know if HR records that old might still be accessible if they were to be subpoenaed or if they would have been deleted/destroyed by this point.
