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

BrettMorganxD

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

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.

I will just keep asking until she provides it, if she refuses can I tell my new employer she refused and ask someone else?

Milkshock

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

I will just keep asking until she provides it, if she refuses can I tell my new employer she refused and ask someone else?

yes, i think that would be the best option

LittleVoice

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

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.

Perhaps the best thing is for the new employers to phone your ex and say "please can you confirm that BrettMorganxD was employed by your company from specified start date to specified end date and that their job title was whatever it was".

The employers then make a note that they have spoken with the employer who confirms the basic details.

BrettMorganxD

LittleVoice wrote: »

Perhaps the best thing is for the new employers to phone your ex and say "please can you confirm that BrettMorganxD was employed by your company from specified start date to specified end date and that their job title was whatever it was".

The employers then make a note that they have spoken with the employer who confirms the basic details.

Yeh but she is taking her time she needs to hurry up I am broke here, it wont take her two minutes to right a reference

Uncertain

OP.....

I would strongly suggest you take note of what SarEl has written and ignore anything posted by Milkshock.

Milkshock.....

It is hard to escape the view that most / all or what you post here is deliberate nonsense as some sort of pathetic game.

However, in the unlikely event it is just due to ignorance stop for a moment and THINK about what you have "advised" in this thread.

Suppose that you were right (not that you are) and the statement in the dismissal letter that the employer "will provide a basic reference" formed a legally enforceable contract just where do you think that gets the OP? Nowhere does it say what that basic reference will contain. Just how much help do you think "Employed on XX/XX/XXXX and dismissed on YY/YY/YYYY for reason ZZZZZZZZZZZ" will be in getting another job?

Milkshock

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

Yeh but she is taking her time she needs to hurry up I am broke here, it wont take her two minutes to right a reference

they meant that phone conversation would be enough to confirm.

Milkshock

Uncertain wrote: »

OP.....

I would strongly suggest you take note of what SarEl has written and ignore anything post by Milkshock.

Milkshock.....

It is hard to escape the view that most / all or what you post here is deliberate nonsense as some sort of pathetic game.

However, in the unlikely event it is just due to ignorance stop for a moment and THINK about what you have "advised" in this thread.

Suppose that you were right (not that you are) and the statement in the dismissal letter that the employer "will provide a basic reference" formed a legally enforceable contract just where do you think that gets the OP? Nowhere does it say what that basic reference will contain. Just how much help do you think "Employed on XX/XX/XXXX and dismissed on YY/YY/YYYY for reason ZZZZZZZZZZZ" will be in getting another job?

you utter utter clown uncertain

the op has already told new employer that he was dismissed!!!!!

they just want a ref confirming that!


read before you type you moron

despite your complete idiocy you may be right that letter is not legally enforceable, so i take that back

but he has a right to go after them on his own on the basis of that letter.

LittleVoice

BrettMorganxD wrote: »

Yeh but she is taking her time she needs to hurry up I am broke here, it wont take her two minutes to right a reference

It would take more than two minutes to write a reference and you want her to have done that twice. I'm not saying that it is a big effort but there is clearly a block to her actually doing it.

If they PHONE then she doesn't have to write anything. All she has to do is say "yes, that's right" twice. The new employers then have an audit trail of whom they spoke with and when and that the dates and job titles matched.

BrettMorganxD

Milkshock wrote: »

they meant that phone conversation would be enough to confirm.

No they didn't... They send written ones I have spoken to my ex-employer. They don't contain the dismissal. Just dates and job title which both employers have aggreed to accept

BrettMorganxD

LittleVoice wrote: »

It would take more than two minutes to write a reference and you want her to have done that twice. I'm not saying that it is a big effort but there is clearly a block to her actually doing it.

If they PHONE then she doesn't have to write anything. All she has to do is say "yes, that's right" twice. The new employers then have an audit trail of whom they spoke with and when and that the dates and job titles matched.

Wont my p45 and contract do this?

I beleive her "block" is just for spite tbh