Is it legal for a work placement agency to contact your current employer to tell them you applied for a job?
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Is it legal for a work placement agency to contact your current employer to tell them you applied for a job?
A local temp agency/work placement
agency contacted my current employer
and told them I sent my resume to the
work placement agency. Now my current
employer is telling other employees and
saying if I don’t want to be there they
already have a replacement lined up
with the same work placement agency.
Asked on May 15, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Missouri
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
This is perfectly permissable under the law. There is unless there was confidentiallity agreement regarding such an action. Otherwise, an employment placement agency can contact a current employer regading an applicant's new job.
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Yes, it is perfectly legal: there is nothing inherently protected or confidential about applying for work or sending out a resume: anyone who knows about this can relate it to any other person, unless there was an actual written confidentiality agreement preventing this--IF there was such an agreement, then you may be able to sue for breach of contract, but otherwise, you would have no recourse.
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