Advice, please....

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So I was recently applying for a job and when they went to check my previous job references, this one organization who screwed me over a few jobs back got caught lying to the new prospective employer -- back then, I turned the other cheek and walked away; I'm not really the kind of person that likes to sue the s**t out of people. They stated that they had never heard of me and the I had never worked for them. However, when the prospective employer contacted the HR department in a separate part of the organization they were told my dates of employment and my postion.

Now I'm faced with the possibility that they may have been doing this all along and that it may have cost me at least a few potential jobs.

What would any of you? Would you take legal action?

yes....sue the pants off them...I have always worried about this and losing money is the ONLY thing the most companies understand or will change because of...

Is there a specific person or department you can get prospective employers to contact? If you had a problem with one person, for example, write down the name of someone else who you got on OK with.

Seek legal advice. A lawyer can give you the best opinion on whether you have a case or not.
Secondly, have you got any proof that you worked for this company? Payslips? letters of appointment?. It might be beneficial to present these at job interviews and stuff.

Yes actually. The fact of the matter is that one agency (the one that lied) was actually a separate department within a larger agency (a university). And that university keeps it's own HR records, which I directed the prospective employer to that HR department where they got the truth.

The added catch is that the prospective hiring agency is a law enforcement agency -- meaning not only that the prior employer lied to law enforcement, but that the prospective agency also records all their phone lines going in and out of the department. Which means that my previous employer was immortalized lying on a dictaphone device. A recording which will be kept by the department for some time and which is subject to subpoena.



Yes. I am seeking legal advice. And I also have lots of proof I worked for this agency, including payslips and all sorts of other paperwork, not to mention that the aforementioned university HR which has records of my employment that they can't get rid of.