bad reference from last employer...

monkeymo

Is it just me who thinks you can't give a bad reference these days due to EC regulations "Restriction of Trade" or similar?

Premier_2

It's very unprofessional for an employer to provide a bad reference and probably reflects worse on any employer who does so than on the employee to which it refers.

It also opens the door to potential litigation by the employee for libel etc (but you can't libel someone if the comments made are true)

However, an employer is under no obligation to provide any employee with a reference and a carefully worded refusal is fully understood as to it's true meaning by any prosessional recruiting agency/personnel officer.

elljay

Premier wrote: »

It's very unprofessional for an employer to provide a bad reference and probably reflects worse on any employer who does so than on the employee to which it refers.

It also opens the door to potential litigation by the employee for libel etc (but you can't libel someone if the comments made are true)

However, an employer is under no obligation to provide any employee with a reference and a carefully worded refusal is fully understood as to it's true meaning by any prosessional recruiting agency/personnel officer.

I didn't know that it would be possible to give no reference, - I wanted to be able to point out the good things about the person too. It was a letter not email. Hopefuly it's all in the past now, I don't know what happened as I have left myself. I shall know in future though I've written lots of references before and never had this situation.

Thanks to the OP for asking about this, it's really helped me if not you, I hope things go well for you. Liz