Russia has introduced new rules changing the duration of
required retention for some categories of HR and employee documents
and introducing retention terms for others.
As of 18 February 2020, the law established new terms of
retention for HR documents. The following storage terms are
extended as follows:
- vacation schedules: three years (instead of one year),
- record books, registers, record cards, vacation databases: five
years (instead of three years).
At the same time, some other retention terms are reduced as
follows:
- documents relating to disciplinary actions: three years
(instead of five years);
- applications relating to a need for foreign employees: one year
(instead of five years);
