QUESTION
How do I find out if my current employer is giving a false report to future employers?
Asked on Nov 12th, 2013 on Labor and Employment - Illinois
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I am currently employed and in the process of looking for employment else where. I am a registered nurse working for a hospital based Home Health service as a field case manager. During the course of employment management has not delivered on what they had promised at the time of hire, including hourly rate payment and territories I was to work in. I have been with the company for over one year and my evaluations have been excellent. I have always received great responses during job searches and since starting a new search to leave this company my responses have been poor. I will appreciate any advise you can give me at this time.
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You should first make a written request for a copy of your personnel file to verfiy that there are no disciplinary actions or documents claiming that you had poor performance. The company may not have issued any of these to you, but you should verify that there are no such documents that were placed in your personnel file.
Once you have obtained your file, you can try asking the prospective employer why you were not selected and try to confirm that there was not a negative reference from your past employer. Many companies will not divulge such information to you, there are some that may, especially if they were considering hiring you until they received the negative reference. There are also companies that you can locate on the internet that specialiize in contacting prior employers pretending to be a prospective employer and ask for a reference.
Answered on Nov 12th, 2013 at 3:19 PM