job referance

[tommyboy]

i have found out today that i have recieved a bad referance from my line manager and the new job which i was offered subject to referance within the same nhs trust, was withdrawn because of the referance from my line manager. is it possible for me to see her referance and challenge her if it turns out to be incorrect.

[Phantaxus]

This is in the wrong section I think it is against the law to give an incorrect reference. You sould see your line manager and request the reference from her.

[woofgang]

how did you find out about the bad reference? No offence but could there have been any truth in it? I am in a position where I both write and consider people's references and I have taken some training in it. We are told to stick to the facts, if anything undesireable has to be added, then ensure that it is objectively stated and absolutely proveable. If you wouldn't re-employ the person, then you say factual things like how long they have worked for you, what their responsibilities consisted of, anything that they have done well, and make no comment about anything else. We are asked to report on their sickness absence record and again we would just put the total number of days without comment unless the total is high but there were mitigating circumstances. Baseline is that while your manager may not have given you a good enough reference, she is unlikely (unless she is completely crazy) to have given you a bad one. If she did, unless it is objectively proveable, then your union should be able to help you

[FP]

I believe that you have the right to see any reference given about you.

[undercovers]

you can ask to see it, in fact i think it is unlawful to write a bad reference these days - even when it is true - e.g. the case involving a high street bank that wrote no details other than time worked, absence and the number of complaints against the individual that had occured, she successful took them to a tribunal and won on the grounds that she had never been told about any complaints against her.

[hertz]

Was the bad reference anything to do with your spelling by any chance?