The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has issued a policy directive for federal contractors on the use of electronic recordkeeping systems to comply with its record retention regulations. The guidance also covers the destruction of paper originals of personnel or employment records that are otherwise preserved in an electronic format.

The OFCCP record retention provisions contain language similar to that found in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulations which addressed whether electronic recordkeeping would satisfy the recordkeeping requirements under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act in an informal discussion letter. The EEOC discussion letter states that nothing in the covered laws required the preservation of records in paper, rather than electronic format.