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Giving a reference when your last employer has done a flit

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ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 17:30

I am trying to track down my last employer - but can't. Due the to nature of my 'profession', they MUST have references - and they insist that one of them is your previous employer.

What can I do?

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Nighbynight · 21/07/2008 17:42

I suppose you'll have to write that they've done a flit. Really no hope of tracing them?

Sympathies - one of mine no longer exists, it was taken over and shut down. I have to get a reference, too.

ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 17:43

Snap - it was taken over, went bust, we were all made redundant and nobody seems to know where they went.

I am never going to get a job at this rate!

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Nighbynight · 21/07/2008 17:43

that just reminds me, one of ex h's employers did a flit, owing everyone money, including ex h's wages. There might have been a police record, I think.

ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 17:43

they don't owe any money - they just seemed to wash their hands of the whole thing!

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Nighbynight · 21/07/2008 17:44

Has the takeover firm gone bust too?

I am going to write to Benq. (it was Siemens com, which was famously bought and shut)

ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 17:46

Oh no, sorry, the takeover firm is still there - do you think they would have details? It's not even the same sort of business now!

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flowerybeanbag · 21/07/2008 19:31

How long ago was it? There is a requirement by law to retain certain types of record for various different lengths of time, including wages and other salary records for 6 years after employment has ended.

If it's more recent than that, someone ought to be able to at least confirm your dates of employment.

ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 19:48

there's nobody to ask for the records though!

the company went bust, the owner and manager is |AWOL - where would I get the records from?

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flowerybeanbag · 21/07/2008 19:50

The firm that took them over should have them.

ThatBigGermanPrison · 21/07/2008 19:52

Ahhhh I see, thank you very much fbb

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