At 8:28 am +0000 19/4/02, Charles Oppenheim wrote:
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>My two pennyworth: your Council is under no obligation to provide a copy of
>the reference under the Act. The ex employee should go to the would be
>employer for the copy.
Equally, you are not _prevented_ from disclosing the reference by the
DPA. You can disclose it if to the ex-employee if you choose.
If it shows that you assessed him or her fairly, why not? It may nip
in the bud any suspicion that someone who disliked him is acting
spitefully under the protection of a confidential reference - a very
common suspicion. You can be sure he's now trying to work out who had
it in for him, and whether this is going to blight every future job
application he makes.
Maurice Frankel
Campaign for Freedom of Information
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