S1E4 - Giving References: Can you? Should you?

Employees can sue for negligent or incorrect references, and although those sorts of claims are rare, they can be tricky to handle.

In this week’s podcast, Daniel Barnett shares his six rules of giving references as well as some common pitfalls.

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