Hi All,
My friend is facing a unique situation and need your views/suggestions on this. He was working with a top MNC for 6 years and unfortunately had a very bad and revengeful manager during his last year of tenure. Manager was trying to find fault with him in some way for a long time and jealous of his success and finally trapped him in a policy violation issue on over billing report.. He was unaware of the policy as he was billing from a long time and no one cared to inform him about the policy even once or warn him when it happened first time. Even though all the reports were approved by management in the department, before reaching finance dept. He was unfairly made a scapegoat during an audit to protect the management. He was fed up working there with all the politics and resigned. After resignation, he was informed by HR verbally that he has violated policy and will be relieved immediately, without even serving notice period. He didn't get pay for notice period but got experience letter after recovery of the billing amount.
Now h tried applying to same company from a different branch after 7 months and the HR there has told that he is not considered as his file is marked "No for rehire" and termination. He was shocked on hearing this as he was not given any termination letter.
Is marking employee like this legal and fair ?
How long do companies usually keep personnel records before deleting them? Does this mean he can never apply to any other dept in that company?
What information is HR legally permitted to reveal during background check? IF he says to other employer that he resigned and in background check they say termination and policy voilation, this will be a huge problem for him.
What action can he take in this situation?
Thx.
My friend is facing a unique situation and need your views/suggestions on this. He was working with a top MNC for 6 years and unfortunately had a very bad and revengeful manager during his last year of tenure. Manager was trying to find fault with him in some way for a long time and jealous of his success and finally trapped him in a policy violation issue on over billing report.. He was unaware of the policy as he was billing from a long time and no one cared to inform him about the policy even once or warn him when it happened first time. Even though all the reports were approved by management in the department, before reaching finance dept. He was unfairly made a scapegoat during an audit to protect the management. He was fed up working there with all the politics and resigned. After resignation, he was informed by HR verbally that he has violated policy and will be relieved immediately, without even serving notice period. He didn't get pay for notice period but got experience letter after recovery of the billing amount.
Now h tried applying to same company from a different branch after 7 months and the HR there has told that he is not considered as his file is marked "No for rehire" and termination. He was shocked on hearing this as he was not given any termination letter.
Is marking employee like this legal and fair ?
How long do companies usually keep personnel records before deleting them? Does this mean he can never apply to any other dept in that company?
What information is HR legally permitted to reveal during background check? IF he says to other employer that he resigned and in background check they say termination and policy voilation, this will be a huge problem for him.
What action can he take in this situation?
Thx.