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An obligation to express “regret, thanks and best wishes”?
An employment reference marks the end of an employment relationship. Like the termination of the employment relationship itself, this too can be a source of dispute – in this case, a dispute over wording. This is particularly true when the employment relationship is terminated by the employer on the grounds of alleged poor performance or a breach of trust, and a termination reference rated at least ‘good’ is demanded during settlement negotiations.
Read the analysis of the Federal Labour Court’s (BAG) latest judgement on the ‘perennial hot topic’ of employment references in our article in the Deutscher Anwaltsan Spiegel:
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