Abstract: A single development platform is provided which can define automated collaborative process methods for electronically generating, storing, and transmitting employment documents within a shared computer network, and granting rights to Users, such as employers, employees, records management staff and identity verification agencies, to collaboratively start, manage, complete, store, index, retrieve and dispose of the documents and related subject matter document images and related records. A single environment executes rules and policies for both the creation and records management of a record, and enforces associated records management rules and policies to automatically execute legal and regulatory rules appropriate for the storage, retrieval and disposition of an electronic file.