Previous Salary Confidentiality

steampowered

The old employer will be perfectly entitled to pass this information on if they wish.

If the new employer discovers that you intentionally lied to them, they would be perfectly entitled to revoke your job offer.

Personally, asking your previous employer not to say things in a reference sounds like it would raise alarm bells. I think you are better off keeping quiet. Once the new employer has made an offer they probably won't care much what you get paid before. Perhaps be more honest in future.

vrealm

The offer has been made and I have accepted it. Meanwhile I have contacted my previous employer not to disclose my financial info in future references. It's nobody's business how much I earn. I did not directly tell the company how much I earn neither was I asked. I only spoke to a recruitment agent who will get commission anyways

Undervalued

vrealm wrote: »

The offer has been made and I have accepted it. Meanwhile I have contacted my previous employer not to disclose my financial info in future references. It's nobody's business how much I earn. I did not directly tell the company how much I earn neither was I asked. I only spoke to a recruitment agent who will get commission anyways

True.

However a potential employer can ask and decline to employ you if you don't tell them (or don't tell them the truth). That is their business!

OK, maybe this one didn't ask but, to be honest, that is unusual.

Takeaway_Addict

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

Nobody ever asks that, do they? Not in my line of work anyway. If they did I would simply refuse to tell them, and question their worth to me.

You'd be surprised, we don't ask it but I've seen it around.

The question isn't whether to ask is right or not its whether lieing or not is, if you lie and get found out then you break the trust.

eamon

Lots of employers use this tactic as a bench marking exercise. They could of course go online and use one of the salary checkers. But perhaps thats to obvious.

Gavin83

vrealm wrote: »

It's nobody's business how much I earn.

Then why not say this instead of lying about it?

You might get away with it, you might not. However I don't think it's worth the risk and the stress to lie about something that you don't need to lie about.

Were I your new employer and I found out you lied I'd sack you on the spot. I'd imagine most would. It's not so much this lie that's the problem, it's a case of what else would you lie about in the future. I'd rather someone I could trust.

steampowered

If you did get caught knowingly giving false information for use in the recruitment process, the company could revoke the offer simply on the grounds of dishonesty.

However in reality it sounds very unlikely you will get caught, so you will just have to hope nobody notices.