Can an employer refuse to give you a reference , or give you a bad one simply because you left the job to live with a woman you met on internet dating?
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Any former employer has the right to refuse to give you a reference. In this case however, I doubt if your last employer would even remember such a thing and even if they did, they would not mention it at all, ever! People leave their jobs all the time for numerous reasons, this one included. The time to worry over whether they'll give you a good reference is when you left the job because you were sacked for gross misconduct - such as stealing money out of the till or nicking all the computers from the office.
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i believe that they cannot write anything bad in a reference but they can just write the very basics or even refuse. Both of the latter would indicate to a new employer that they should be careful of employing someone. Unless you did all of the internet dating whilst at work then I cannot see why your employer would give you a poor reference just for leaving
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I know that the company that I worked for (a major airline) will not give you any references. They will only affirm that you worked for them. I am pretty sure that this is legal (in Canada).
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Employers routinely refuse to give references purely because there are so many rules around what you can and cannot say that many find it easier to just refuse. However, your reference must be relevant to the role you performed and the job you were employed to do. Personal issues and reasons for leaving are irrelevant to a reference.
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Yes. An employer is not obligated to give you a reference, and they have the right to give any truthful information they wish. They can even give technically false information if it 1) pertains to the job, and 2) they have a reasonable belief in its truth.
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An employer can refuse to give you a reference. What do you mean by "give you a bad one simply because you left the job to live with a woman you met on internet dating?" An employer would be liable for defamation if they gave false information to a future employer, and as a result the employer did not hire you. Thus if the recommendation went something like "happiness said he was going to work through the current project, but then left to live with a woman he met on the internet. He is not a man of his word and I would not recommend him." Assume this all was true, then there would be no defamation.
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An employer can refuse to give you a reference. If you are in the US, it is illegal for an employer to give anything other than basic employment information, the length of your employment, your job title, etc. Your former employer cannot offer any unsolicited information about your personal life or even about the quality of your work. You might want to check with the Department of Labor to verify this information.
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OK, here's a related question, I worked for a company that merged with another company. Nothing changed but the name. But under their new name they say they have no record of my employment and they won't even say I ever worked there, let alone give the simple hire/leave dates, job title and salary info needed when I apply elsewhere. So it looks like I lied about those two years of employment when I apply somewhere. Is this legal for them to refuse to keep simple records? It's still the same company, they even have the old name as the name on their website, but they say since I left before the name change they aren't responsible for verifying my employment dates!
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I worked for a large major company who refused to give anyone any references other than...He/She was employed by this company from 21july 1980 until 22aug 1991....only the dates...nothing about how well you did or did not do your job...so i would say yes that they can refuse to give you a reference as far as the type of job that you did...but they do have to acknowledge that you did work for them.
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we only have to - by law - give the dates you worked for us
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OK, It's me again, the guy who worked for a company that was bought and changed their name and won't give ANY kind of employment verification (no dates, no job title, nothing) for anybody who worked for them before the name change: I talked to a friend who used to do HR for a company that had a lot of pending Labor lawsuits, and when they "sold" the business, the new owner did not "accept the liability" just the "assets". In other words, my former employer, which didn't pay us earned overtime and should have been subject to a nasty class-action labor lawsuit, is "playing possum" to avoid any responsibility. If they admit they employed anybody previous to the name change, they are liable for a lot of lawsuits. It's a nasty sort of evasion of responsibility if you ask me. Sort of like if a person changed his name and that meant he didn't have to answer for any laws he broke prior to changing his name! The mob would love that, maybe they need to incorporate and change their name regularly to avoid the long arm of the law!
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