Seek confidentiality order if employee wants access to co-workers' disciplinary records.

A federal court hearing a Pennsylvania case has concluded that plaintiffs seeking to compare the discipline they received with that of other employees are entitled to the information, but must keep it confidential.

That's to protect the other employees from the embarrassment and breach of privacy that exposing their disciplinary history to the world might cause.

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