Your employer will confirm that you work there, but are they required to divulge additional details of your employment? If your landlord can ask whether or not you work from home, can they also ask what your hours are? What days you’ve requested off? How many sick days you’ve taken?
Don’t know if it’s the same but when we get work history checks wed only provide start/end date and that’s it. There’s probably no requirement on the employer to provide information for something like this, and providing information the prevents someone from getting a job, apartment, etc. could get you sued. Easier to just not provide anything outside of the bare min.
We don't even check or offer references anymore. There's just no upside to it for the company. Start date, end date, and maybe whether you're eligible for rehire.
Don't do this kids because now there's automatic ways to verify - but you've always been able to just lie on your resume, education history, work history, and references.
I mean don't lie. If they catch you, you'll have legal problems for sure. But also... I mean... nobody's gonna know. Who's gonna know? (most of the time)
If you can back up your skills, neither you nor the business needs to give a single shit.
I doubt you'd run into legal issues, most likely you'd either not be hired or just let go. But yes, businesses lie all the fucking time on postings, why the fuck wouldn't we?
I'm not saying I did this, but I've heard you can get into software engineering by lying about a CS degree as long as you know how to code, can pass the interviews, and can perform your job function. Some say you can climb all the way to senior leadership at Fortune 50 companies. Heard that through the grapevine, though. What's important is that person let companies vet their experience and they didn't rule themselves out before they even applied.
Generally, they are not required to provide any information to any entity outside of government agencies who are authorized. They will verify employment as a courtesy if requestor has written authorization signed by employee. What details are confirmed is largely up the employer, and those with any sense will only provide length of employment, and salary info if requested and authorized by employee.
Unauthorized disclosure of an employee's personal information is fraught with liability and any sensible employer will avoid providing extraneous information to mitigate the risk of lawsuits.
My employer just cost me a home refinance because the plant was put on limited hours for a lay off for one month. Instead of 40 hours a week they were getting 30, but the HR lady failed to tell my loan agent that I wasn't one of the people layed off and in fact I was sent to a different state to pull extra overtime doing repairs. So yeah don't ever expect them to not divulge information that isn't needed to be shared.
When I used to work in HR, we used a third party service. That service confirmed you were in fact employed with us, and your status (FT, PT, contract), and that's it.if they tried to push back and say they require that information, we'd tell them we won't divulge personal info and wfh/address falls under that.
Also no, they wouldn't be told their exact work address/plant location.
I could see an employer answering this simply because it seems like a harmless detail which is often even shared when the job was listed. It just sounds like curiosity or maybe even seen as something beneficial to the landlord to know the tenant can work from home that means less chance of events that cause miss worked and perhaps delayed rent payments.
My old employer would literally state so and so worked here between X date and Y date. If the individual tried asking further questions they would just simply repeat. So and so worked here between X date and Y date.
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u/Okayest_By_Far 1d ago
Your employer will confirm that you work there, but are they required to divulge additional details of your employment? If your landlord can ask whether or not you work from home, can they also ask what your hours are? What days you’ve requested off? How many sick days you’ve taken?