I dont think they can legally say owt shocking or bad, I was talking about this the other day, unless its up to them like and some take liberties There's some places i wouldnt ask like
i get the feeling bt are playing dirty tricks with me... :evil: i've even spoke to my ex manager and he siad he didn't think they were allowed to say what they said although at the bottom of the reference it does state that bt can not be held responsible for any mis-statments or ommissions
It is illegal for a former employer to purposefully give false information for the sake of harming one's reputation or preventing one from obtaining employment. In addition, personal information that is not job related should neither be asked about or provided by either a prospective or former employer. In general, it is inappropriate for a prospective employer to ask questions or a former employer to provide information about an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, or parenting responsibilities. Former employers who fear potential defamation and slander law suites have become crafty when answering employment reference questions. Rather than speak negatively about a former employee, some will opt to "No Comment" when asked critical employment questions regarding performance, termination, and eligibility for rehire. The inference of this is just as harmful to the employee as a bad reference, and if a prospective employer has to choose between two qualified applicants - one with positive references and the other with mediocre or bad references - who do you suppose they will choose? Another common practice among leery employers is to refuse to give any information about an employee other than dates of employment and title. This is gross disservice to an employee who has dedicated years of faithful service to a company, yet gets no better of a reference then an employee who was fired for embezzlement. Unfortunately, this policy is within the legal rights of an employer- provided the policy is an across the board policy that applies to all employees - not just a selected few. There have been cases successfully argued that an employer discriminated against an employee for not applying the same policy to all its employees
dont know, all they could give out once I had moved from lloyds was very very basic stuff such as attendance, punctuality any disciplinarys name period of work think thats it - have they wrote really personal stuff? or exactly what went on?
Re: help required as long as they dont tell lies then anything goes basically. so if u were sacked they can say why u were sacked. if u performed poor in your job, were always late, unwilling to take on new tasks etc etc etc...they can say all that. just have to hope u didnt piss off BT too much
what makes you say that? looks like a description of the law in this country to me. except the issue of 'no comment' has now progressed a little. there has since been a few cases where it has been shown that ex-employers in choosing to answer reference questions 'no comment', were doing so with malicous intent.
Re: Re: help required well, as long as she didnt regularly slag them off on an internet message board, im sure she'll be fine
Re: Re: Re: help required haha - thats what i was hinting at people just dont realise how much big brother actually DOES know what ur doing/saying
your should be ok UNLESS u left on bad terms if it was just for what i think it was for u should be fine but choose the name of the reference carefully!
by law you can not give someone a negative reference that may cause any future employer to turn back an application
Thats what I thought too. I'm fairly sure that they CAN'T give you a bad reference...I assume they could under-sell you, but I don't think they can put any negative comments in as such.
the person i put down for my references has not been contacted by any company i gained employment with but hr services have sent me a copy of a reference to give to one place with things i was advised they weren't allow to say on it!
un-true. for example in terms of punctuality, time-keeping etc. if they had performed poorly at both in a previous job, then there is nothing preventing a previous employer mentioning this when asked.
