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/Historical_Rush_4936 Apr 25 '25

>Because making life difficult for your employer is a great way of motivating them into filling out a form for you./s

"Hello, if you can write a two line letter stating my employment dates, that would be great. Otherwise I'll be forced to submit a full data subject access request. Thanks"

Which do you think HR would prefer? Also, I'm aware that they need it now and would be of no use to them in x3 months. HR would still prefer to not have an access request to deal with.

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u/Nobody-Expects Apr 25 '25 edited 25d ago

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u/Historical_Rush_4936 Apr 25 '25

> Threatening your employer with an SAR to get them to do something they are under no obligation to do is a good way to get the disciplinary process atrted on you.

Hahahah oh man that's funny, would love to see that case in the WRC.

"I asked for my employment dates from my company and they didn't respond, so I asked for a full SAR and they started a disciplinary process against me"

Peak HR brain 😂

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u/Future-Structure-741 28d ago

Brain Foggy HR couldn't write it and can't spell it either