Calling your employer

[FreightNazi]

When a company you're seeking to get hired with calls your present employer, what kind of questions are they asking?

Unless you have something to hide or skeletons in your closet, don't worry about it.

 

[radarlove]

they can ask anything they want, however your present or past employer may only provide the following information:
date of hire, starting salary, present salary, would they rehire you and as a pilot they have to provide all your traing records. Thats all they can legally say about you. They cannot say anything else either positive or negative.

That's absolute nonsense.

Go find the "law" that you are quoting there Tex.

 

[lostplnetairman]

I was wondering about that "law" myself. It doesn't exist.

You can only sue one for defamation of character. The truth is always defensible. Furthermore, employers have an affirmative responsibility to pass along the facts relating to any workplace violence, etc. The numerous acts of workplace violence that occurred after the individual was fired from numerous jobs, only to get another one and go ballistic, have provided the impetus for many states to pass reference check immunity laws for employers.

That being said: http://www.badreferences.com/

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