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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
In today's day and age I think this is pretty normal. As far as contacting your employer, it's a little questionable but as long as they just asked "can you confirm so and so works here" it's no harm done really.
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I disagree with you about thinking there's no harm done contacting my employer to verify credentials. The person asking for clarification could be anybody or posing as somebody with or without sinister intentions (unbeknown to the employer.) They could use this information for whatever means they wanted.
The company should never IMO disclose facts like that to anybody
unless it's for professional reasons only, such as a job reference for example.
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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
If employers have aright to check references, I think it's reasonable to check references with someone we date too. Dating is more consequential than working in most ways. Perhaps your fiancé was seriously burned in the past and the family is over protective. It's easy to judge people for being over protective but I'd prefer it over being under protective. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.....it's not just a cliche, it's very, very true.
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In the UK the Police have a similar system to what you think employers should do for someone's personal life and that is mainly for Domestic Abuse reasons where you can contact them and see if a potential partner has ever been convicted of a crime for DA or any other applicable crime. That is a vetting type process and a legitimate act of doing so.