When your former employer/ references give a bad testimonial
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GUEST - Kagiso Lebethe - Senior Employee Relations Specialist
Even though employers are not legally obliged to provide character references this does not mean that employers providing references have a free reign in the type of references they can provide.
An employee who feels that a false character reference provided by their former employer resulted in them not being offered a job has the option to sue the previous employer for loss of income. In claiming loss of income an employee will have to be able to convince the court that he/she would have been offered the job but for the false character reference provided and as a result thereto, he/she has lost out on a potential income he/she would have earned.
Even though employers are not legally obliged to provide character references this does not mean that employers providing references have a free reign in the type of references they can provide.
An employee who feels that a false character reference provided by their former employer resulted in them not being offered a job has the option to sue the previous employer for loss of income. In claiming loss of income an employee will have to be able to convince the court that he/she would have been offered the job but for the false character reference provided and as a result thereto, he/she has lost out on a potential income he/she would have earned.
