The lawsuit accuses LinkedIn of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act for supplying references to paid subscribers without users’ consent. A class-action lawsuit in California accuses the social ...
In most states, there is no affirmative duty to respond to a prospective employer's request for a reference, say Bruce Rosen and Amy Grossman. Awareness of potential liability has long led most ...
Even though there is nothing “illegal” about giving out a truthful reference (my state, Ohio, even has a statute that protects employment references–O.R.C. 4113.71), my advice to clients is to avoid ...