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03 - FINANCIAL RESOURCES / SALARY MANAGEMENT

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Salary management

Records relating to the administration of employees’ pay: financial forms (T4, TP4), periodic reports on hours worked and salaries paid, pay journals or logs, accumulated sick leave statements, time sheets, records relating to salary deductions, authorization of deductions at source, issue of employment statements, etc.

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Unit

Active

Semi-active

Inactive

primary [ a ]

unit responsible

2 years

X1

D

secondary [ a ]

other units concerned

2 years

 

D

N o t e s :                                                                             ( D = Destruction R = Retention )

1 Retention: 5 years or as long as records are in effect or have an effect on an employee’s pay: deduction at source authorizations, records relating to alimentary pensions, benefits, specific exemptions, etc.
Retention: 75 years for records that can be used to establish an employee salary history (for purposes of reconstructing pension plans or any other operation involving retroactive analysis of past data: lists of salary deductions, lists of tax deductions, pension fund deductions, pay journals or logs, cumulative salary and liability statements, statements of earnings-per-period (cumulative), etc. (Records containing information that is available in a more comprehensive report, for example tax slips, can be destroyed after 5 years).

[   ] = medium --->a = paper b = microfilm c = electronic  d = audio-visual e = other

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