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24 January 2012, 01:46 PM

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Employment Question..

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Can your current employer query your former employer on your former salary, and if so, are they obliged to reveal that salary?

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24 January 2012, 01:51 PM

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They don't need to. It'll be on your P45 that you have to hand them to sort the tax out.

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24 January 2012, 01:59 PM

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Ta - it's been a while

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24 January 2012, 02:45 PM

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You'll also find that depending on the size of the are you are in, employers generally get their own private references via others.
I know we do in my business.

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24 January 2012, 07:44 PM

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I have had occasions when I inflated my salary and even after handing in my P45 it was never queried. In a way if the company has its own HR department these sort of things get lost in the paperwork imo.