How to Check Employment Reference Numbers. ... If necessary, fax over a copy of the release form to ease the previous employer's mind. Ask your questions and document the answers.

In their Employment Law column, Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas examine the risk of defamation arising from reference checks, California’s new sexual harassment-related reference check ...

A common employment law myth is that employers can’t give out any information about former employees beyond date of employment and whether he or she is eligible for rehire.

Why employers are asking for written references from job seekers : The Indicator from Planet Money In the not-so-distant past, serving as someone's job reference meant answering a few questions ...

Earlier this month, as a prank, an Australian radio host phoned up a complete stranger and claimed that he needed a last-minute reference for a job at an accountancy firm. The unwitting victim ...

The lesson here: Next time you're job hunting, make sure you speak with your references first to find out what they are going to say. If you don't, you may get some responses you weren't prepared for.

“If though they have started employment then you would have to run a process because in that case you would be dismissing them,” said Cook. “So you would have to put allegations to them that their ...

In their Employment Law column, Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas examine the risk of defamation arising from reference checks, California's new sexual harassment-related reference check law ...