Person has legally settled for unfair dismissal over a redundancy issue and has elected not to be reinstated and moved on. Employee was exemplary in the job. The employer has provided a glowing detailed typed and signed reference on company headed paper. A potential new employer wants to phone the referee. I don't know what extra information from a reference viewpoint there is to get from a phonecall, as it is all on the written one. Just concerned that the old employer would badmouth the candidate, purely out of malice as they had to fork out compensation, which would of course totally contradict their written reference.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?