{"id":78,"date":"2006-02-17T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-03-02T20:26:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T04:26:15","slug":"reference-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Reference Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an employer do you have to give a reference letter when you terminate an employee without cause?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an area you want to be careful with. Reference too good, you run the risk of problems with the next employer. Reference refused or luke warm, you run the risk of a damages claim with the employee.<\/p>\n<p>One thing for sure, neither side should use a reference letter as a bargaining chip in settlement negotiations. Judges don&#8217;t like it and employers run the risk of having to deal with bad faith claims.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/05\/11\/2005bcsc1190.htm\"><em>Ashby v. EPI Environmental Products Inc.,<\/em><\/a> 2005 BCSC 1190, for a useful summary of the BC position on reference letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an employer do you have to give a reference letter when you terminate an employee without cause? It&#8217;s an area you want to be careful with. Reference too good, you run the risk of problems with the next employer. Reference refused or luke warm, you run the risk of a damages claim with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}