20 CFR § 209.16 - Disposal of payroll records.

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# 209.16 Disposal of payroll records.

Employers may dispose of payroll records for periods subsequent to 1936, *provided that* the payroll records are more than five years old and that there is no dispute pending pertaining to the compensation reported for the period of those records.

[61 FR 31395, June 20, 1996]