| If you think, the information provided by the job | | | | Information Release Authorization Form may have |
| applicant in his resume, may not be true then, what | | | | permitted the company, to pass such information. The |
| course of action you can take to get the right | | | | Fear of Defamation Lawsuit by the employee or |
| information? The only option left for you to get such | | | | misuse of the passed information by the person, other |
| information is, by checking with previous employer, | | | | than the perspective employer is another reason, |
| where the candidate was working. | | | | which also prevents the employer, from passing the |
| But do you think, it is so easy to get the information | | | | desired information. |
| from the previous employer? There are various | | | | It is also to be noted that, due to the restrictions on |
| reasons, which may prevent the employer, to release | | | | releasing the true back ground information of the |
| work history of the employee to the perspective | | | | worker, the incompetent and unfit employees, keep on |
| employer. Even law has provisions, which clearly | | | | shifting from one job to another. The employing of |
| states that past employer can only provide name, | | | | such worker by an organization, without knowing the |
| position, service tenure and job termination date of the | | | | true facts about him is also detrimental for the |
| worker and no information, other than this can be | | | | company, which has offered him employment. |
| released to the third person. | | | | These reasons, make it necessary that an employer |
| There are many incidences in the service tenure of | | | | should ask the employee to sign two documents, one |
| employee, where he may have been disciplined or | | | | document content authorization clause, offering |
| terminated from the job for misconduct, poor work | | | | authorization to the employer and, another set of |
| performance, inconsistency with the job and so on. | | | | document, permitting to release his past working and |
| After the termination from the job for these ill actions, | | | | back ground check, during the tenure of his service. By |
| such worker may try to apply for the job in another | | | | signing of this Employee Information Release |
| company. In such case, the new employer may want | | | | Authorization forms by the worker, the employer is at |
| you, to disclose past history of the new job applicant, | | | | liberty to release the information about the employee. |
| during his service tenure in your company. | | | | You can download these set of Forms from Internet |
| But, the employer has no alternative, except to inform | | | | and ask your employee to sign the document, allowing |
| that, the worker has not authorized him to release | | | | you to release information on his service record. |
| information on the worker. The signing of Employee | | | | |