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Bust up with the boss? - snopes.com
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Quote: : Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers.
It will be good for profits but campaigners say innocent people could find it impossible to get another job.
To critics it sounds like a scenario from some Orwellian nightmare.
An online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty, regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime, which bosses can access when vetting potential employees.
But this is no dystopian fantasy.
Later this month, the National Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR) is expected to go live.
Working in the recruitment business, I've come across plenty of nasty employers who stoop to underhand tricks to scupper ex-employees.
This is going to be open to all sorts of abuse.
Personally, if I had to go through the process of challanging information held on such a databse, I'd sue (a) the database owners, and (b) the ex-employer who posted about me, for every penny they had.
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Oh that's just not right.
Hopefully someone successfully sues and gets the thing shut down.
LF
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Given how rubbish many employers are at checking references I feel their efforts might be better placed there than attacking people (with no proof!) on a website.
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This is one of those things (or at least, relates to one of those things) that I'm always torn on (that is, how much information past employers should be allowed to give out).
I mean, on one hand, you have your employer who just has a bone to pick and enhances or even inventes existing problems you had while working there while leaving out all positives.
This can seriously harm the chances of a perfectly good worker from getting a job.
The flip side is that if somebody is a thief, lazy worker, liar, etc, it seems like something that I as a hypothetical perspective employer would want to know ahead of time (and unless things went to the level of the legal system I probalby would not).
Now I'm sure that, even under the system (which as I understand it means that all you can do is ask "would you hire this person again") people find ways of getting the info they want/need..
But still..
I guess really this is just another of those things that, to me, sounds great in theory but no doubt would be abused and its more important (in a "let fifty guilty men go free.." way) to protect those who would be wrongly harmed by it.
-MB
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