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For liability issues in the US and UK they generally only share start and end date. She can hire a firm to do a reference with this company and see what they say. If they say anything wrong or spiteful the firm will send a cease and desist.
If a firm does a background 99% of the time the company won’t say anything bad, and even if they do often times the company hires anyway.
She can hire a firm to do a background check on herself to see what this former employer would say about her. There are firms that specialize in this for job seekers. She would need to google it in the UK but these firms also have a legal department and if they badmouth her they can send a letter to the employer to make them think twice about what they say.
I work in HR.
Not sure about UK, but in US they cannot.
All we ask for is the departure date. We can (but rarely) ask if the seperation was by choice or not. The HR person can say yes or no, but should not elaborate.
I only had one experience where the employer said "The company decided to separate from this former employee due to unlawful acts." and she left it at that. This statement was important because she could not say this for only an accusation. They were probably in stages of pressing charges. Due to this statement, we decide not to make an offer.
If we are really suspicious, we might ask for a manager reference from your last employer. We cannot contact your last employer and ask for this information.
But it's up to YOU to provide that information. If you decide not to, you pretty much confirmed our suspicions.
Curious about the US too
No, it’s illegal to ask a candidate about their previous salary requirements, but not yet illegal to obtain that info through other means.
Hiring companies are welcome to ask for salary confirmation, but there is no incentive for the answering company to provide it: it’s competitive intel, and can also potentially open the answering company up to a lawsuit from the candidate.
Why would you put the job down for reference check, or on cv if you didn’t make it past probation? Probably better to have a gap and say you were learning about yourself, or traveling or exploring start up options or something.
Soo not this. It’s dishonest
I would say it would be uncommon for companies in the UK to get in touch with previous employers unless it is a senior role or a role requiring security clearance. Screening in most cases includes basic background checks, such as criminal record, debts etc.
Also please help her to realize that being laid off in a probationary period means she wasn't a good fit for what they were looking for which is better for them AND her in the long run, it doesn't reflect on her or her character in any other way than in respect to that job. Also, being laid off in the time of Covid is basically a universal free pass.