Ex-employer taking ages to provide a reference????

BrettMorganxD

Milkshock wrote: »

hassle them for it, you arent wrong in continually asking because you have that letter.

until they say 'no we will not do it'

at which point you can take them to court.

I doubt she will do that she is the sort that keeps hanging on and hanging on or is always busy.

Milkshock

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

I doubt she will do that she is the sort that keeps hanging on and hanging on or is always busy.

if she refuses to give a reference, when she said she would, and you can prove you lost a job because of her refsual you can certainly claim damages.

BrettMorganxD

Emmzi wrote: »

You state the wording as we can provide, not we will provide, or are obliged to provide.

For once, I am glad I got something wrong. The letter reads.

If required, we will provide you with a basic reference.

WILL not can

BrettMorganxD

But as I said both companys told me they would be ok with a basic reference with dates, and dates don't take long to write.

The letter says We WILL so surely that is legally binding?

Milkshock

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

But as I said both companys told me they would be ok with a basic reference with dates, and dates don't take long to write.

The letter says We WILL so surely that is legally binding?

yes of course it is. and a refusal to supply - and you should wait for a refusal/or loss of job due to no response in a request for a reference - can be challenged in the civil courts.

keep a written record of every request you make to them

e-mail them and keep the emails with the date.

BrettMorganxD

Milkshock wrote: »

yes of course it is. and a refusal to supply - and you should wait for a refusal - can be challenged in the civil courts.

Thanks your advice is really helpful But to be completely honest I would rather not get a refusal and just get the bleedin' reference so I can earn money. I only earned £432 pcm (£500 good month) there I earn a little over £1,000 at my new job

Milkshock

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

Thanks your advice is really helpful But to be completely honest I would rather not get a refusal and just get the bleedin' reference so I can earn money. I only earned £432 pcm (£500 good month) there I earn a little over £1,000 at my new job

tell your new job that you are struggling to get the ref., and ask them to please hold on while you sort it out.

believe me at least your old job arent bad mouthing you to the new job, despite giving out a good reference, which is what happened to me!

SarEl

Milkshock wrote: »

yes of course it is. and a refusal to supply - and you should wait for a refusal/or loss of job due to no response in a request for a reference - can be challenged in the civil courts.

keep a written record of every request you make to them

e-mail them and keep the emails with the date.

And since this as much twaddle as everything else you have posted, it is of course wrong. An employer is never obliged to provide a reference and a letter of dismissal saying that they will provide a basic reference is in no way a legally binding contract to do so.

OP, don't spend a lot of money on that "civil case" that Milkshock tells you you have because it will be money wasted.

Milkshock

SarEl wrote: »

And since this as much twaddle as everything else you have posted, it is of course wrong. An employer is never obliged to provide a reference and a letter of dismissal saying that they will provide a basic reference is in no way a legally binding contract to do so.

OP, don't spend a lot of money on that "civil case" that Milkshock tells you you have because it will be money wasted.

are you saying there can be no way an employer can sign a legally binding contract to provide a reference?

because if you are, that is also twaddle

SarEl

Milkshock wrote: »

are you saying there can be no way an employer can sign a legally binding contract to provide a reference?

No - I am saying that this statement in a dismissal letter isn't a legally binding contract, and that is the last correspondence on this issue I will have with you. The OP can believe who they want but I do not correspond with trolls, and especailly not ones who use the personal grief of bereaved posters to have sly digs at other posters who haven't even posted. You are a nasty piece of work having fun misadvising and misleading people for your own entertainment, and it's just as well that we are all out of your reach or you might pours drinks over us.