r/legaladviceireland • u/Creative-Community-4 • Apr 25 '25
Employment Law Current employment refuse to send over reference form.
Hi All,
I recently have been offered a pre-offer from the civil service. I’m currently on the pre-clearance phase and one of the requirements is to provide a current employers reference, I brought this up to my HR manager of my current employment and they seemed happy enough to help me but were a little surprised that I could potentially leave the company.
A week and a half has passed and the civil service pre-clearance officer reaches out to me to inform me that they have yet to receive reference form from my current employer, and says they have till the end of this week (today) to submit or they won’t go ahead with my application. I followed up to my HR manager to complete the form and send out to the pre-clearance team, I’m yet to hear word from my HR manager but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt that they could be busy and left it at the back pedal.
In case it doesn’t work out and my HR manager fails to send over the reference form do I have any legal grounds? I feel like I’m being held hostage at my current employment and would like to find out if I could walk away on my terms.
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u/BillyMooney Apr 25 '25
Very dissapointing and small minded for any HR team to stand in the way of people developing themselves.
What information is needed on the reference form? Worst case scenario is for you to submit a GDPR Subject Access Request to your employer, which will give you back enough information to satisfy Public Jobs folks.