Job Offer Rescinded

Undervalued

Except for a few regulated professions a former employer is not obliged to provide a reference at all and there is nothing you can do about it if they refuse.

If they do provide one then it must be factually correct and not deliberately misleading.

You have no control over how much (or little) information it contains unless a particular omission could be argued to be a malicious attempt to deliberately mislead.

As others have said, your current employer was under no obligation to let you withdraw your resignation. They are quite within their rights to vary the terms of employment offered if they do continue to employ you.

xapprenticex

I've always been under the impreion that you consult a potential referee before making them one, its rude otherwise (imo) and as said, they may not want to do it.

DKLS

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

Did you get a chance to explain why the referee could not confirm a certain area of experience? Sometimes they just give little more than start and end dates.

Seems overly harsh.

The last 3 places I have worked, we were only allowed to confirm job title and dates of employment for references regardless of what some companies ask for and some especially public sector do want a lot, one had 4 pages of questions.
I only answered two of them.

makeyourdaddyproud

DKLS wrote: »

Seems overly harsh.

The last 3 places I have worked, we were only allowed to confirm job title and dates of employment for references regardless of what some companies ask for and some especially public sector do want a lot, one had 4 pages of questions.
I only answered two of them.

Harsh? Try rubbish. There was some other reason, but they declined to say for fear of litigation.