Communicate True Facts About the Worker Through, Employee Information Release Authorization

If you think, the information provided by the jobInformation Release Authorization Form may have
applicant in his resume, may not be true then, whatpermitted the company, to pass such information. The
course of action you can take to get the rightFear of Defamation Lawsuit by the employee or
information? The only option left for you to get suchmisuse 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 informationdesired information.
from the previous employer? There are variousIt is also to be noted that, due to the restrictions on
reasons, which may prevent the employer, to releasereleasing the true back ground information of the
work history of the employee to the perspectiveworker, the incompetent and unfit employees, keep on
employer. Even law has provisions, which clearlyshifting 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 thetrue facts about him is also detrimental for the
worker and no information, other than this can becompany, 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 ofshould ask the employee to sign two documents, one
employee, where he may have been disciplined ordocument content authorization clause, offering
terminated from the job for misconduct, poor workauthorization 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 anothersigning of this Employee Information Release
company. In such case, the new employer may wantAuthorization 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 informand ask your employee to sign the document, allowing
that, the worker has not authorized him to releaseyou to release information on his service record.
information on the worker. The signing of Employee