Reference Release Authorization Post Employment Form

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[Music] let's take a look at post employment references should a former employer be able to limit a person's jobs prospects by providing a negative reference there is a striking paradox here between the needs of employers and those of employees open communication about employees in the job market promotes efficient hiring but protecting individuals from defamation is essential a job reference is defamatory if it contains a false statement than injures and individuals work reputation written definition is known as libel and spoken definition is known as slander references with unfounded allegations of misconduct incompetence poor performance or other conduct dishonesty or falsification of records are defamatory because they may impune the employees ability or fitness for a job employers who provide job references have a common law privilege that broadly protects them from liability for defamation but they lose that protection if they provide information that they know is false act with