Andrew Crystall wrote:
> It can be illegal as you like...if you go after your employer you can
> basically kiss any good job goodbye ever again *shrugs*. Realities of
> the situation.
That depends. I know of someone who got fired for cause and went after her
employer for discrimination. (She was black.) She then did a really good
selling job to get another job. After 90 days, the standard probation
period at that company, her performance was found lacking, but instead of
being let go at that point, she was told she had another 30 days to improve
her performance. Her performance further deteriorated, and she was let go
at the end of the 30 days. She went after *that* employer. The employer
prevailed in the end, but it wasn't pleasant for anyone from that company in
the meantime. During the whole going-after-the-second-company, the first
company was contacted by the second company, and it was only *then* that
anyone from the first company mentioned anything to anyone at the second
company.
In the US, if you get a negative recommendation from a former employer and
you figure out that their recommendation helped prevent you from getting the
job you were after, you can go after them. It can really suck to be
employing people under those conditions.
Julia
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