Growth · Part of Compliance and Audit
Legal hold creation + release
Place a hold on specific employees, candidates, or resource types and retention purges automatically skip those records until the hold is released. Each hold carries a case reference, scope, custodian, and audit trail of every retention run that respected it.
For the operator
When counsel hands you a litigation-hold notice, place the hold immediately — broadly at first if you don't know the exact scope yet, then narrow once you do. Keep the case reference up to date; the hold detail page is what counsel will ask to see during the next status meeting. Release only when counsel confirms in writing that the matter is closed.
Business impact
Spoliation of evidence — losing records during active litigation because they fell out of retention — is one of the worst things that can happen to an HR program. This is the control that prevents it. Without it, your retention policy is a liability; with it, your retention policy is an asset.