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

Milkshock

SarEl wrote: »

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.

im sorry you actually said

An employer is never obliged to provide a reference

and that is the point i was picking you up on.

as regards the dismissal letter thats a seperate issue.

dandelionclock30

Employers are not legally obliged to provide a reference, if their policy says they will provide a basic one and then they dont, legally theres nothing that can be done.
If I were the original poster i would ask the former employer nicely again if they would please supply the reference as I was wishing to move on now in life etc. If they wont then the only thing is to provide other alternatives.

Milkshock

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Employers are not legally obliged to provide a reference, if their policy says they will provide a basic one and then they dont, legally theres nothing that can be done.
If I were the original poster i would ask the former employer nicely again if they would please supply the reference as I was wishing to move on now in life etc. If they wont then the only thing is to provide other alternatives.

its not only their policy, they have given this man a written assurance that they will!

he has and is within his rights to pursue the matter.

dandelionclock30

Legally nothing can be done.He can persue it how he wants but wont get anywhere at all regarding taking the ex employer to court etc.

Milkshock

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Legally nothing can be done.

he is well within his rights to continually pursue the matter with the employer.

presumably until they get fed up and give him what he needs.

LittleVoice

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

Both companys told me a basic reference would be fine, basic reference is ex-employers company policy

But have both companies approached your employer direct?

That is what I was trying to find out - whether you are expecting to get a piece of paper in your hand which amounts to a testamonial or whether the reference would be sent direct to the other companies.

Wherever I have worked in the past references have been collected by one company writing or phoning the other, not for the employee to be postman.

Milkshock

LittleVoice wrote: »

But have both companies approached your employer direct?

That is what I was trying to find out - whether you are expecting to get a piece of paper in your hand which amounts to a testamonial or whether the reference would be sent direct to the other companies.

Wherever I have worked in the past references have been collected by one company writing or phoning the other, not for the employee to be postman.

I guess the threat of the dismissal 'leaking' makes him fear the new employer going to the old one. And understandably so

BrettMorganxD

LittleVoice wrote: »

But have both companies approached your employer direct?

That is what I was trying to find out - whether you are expecting to get a piece of paper in your hand which amounts to a testamonial or whether the reference would be sent direct to the other companies.

Wherever I have worked in the past references have been collected by one company writing or phoning the other, not for the employee to be postman.

Yes they call the company, and my ex-employer told them that they were sending the reference. Now it has been 2-3 weeks and they havn't sent it in yet.

BrettMorganxD

Milkshock wrote: »

I guess the threat of the dismissal 'leaking' makes him fear the new employer going to the old one. And understandably so

Well that doesn't matter really to me. I told both companies I was unfairly dismissed.

BrettMorganxD

SarEl wrote: »

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.

What happened with the whole bereaved thing SarEL