old boss at company is bad mouthing you can you sue for damages
2006-09-02 02:44:54 · 4 answers · asked by hello 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
when I worked for the company I was in the office of my boss when he received a call from another company asking about a past employee and my boss said that no he is no good you shouldnt hire him, so he has done this in the past and I was wondering if he may be doing this currently since he let me go, reason he let me go was to cover his job
2006-09-02 04:04:51 · update #1
If you can prove that the "slander" directly affected your ability to secure another job, absolutely! You will need witnesses though and a person(s)/company(s) that turned you down, to testify on your behalf, that because of information they received from the ex-boss, you weren't hired; this is difficult to do since many people don't want to get involved.
2006-09-02 03:40:00 · answer #1 · answered by sweet ivy lyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to have been damaged to recover. You also have to prove that what was said was untrue, and was said to persons other than yourself. Then you can pretty much just recover for the amount you were damaged.
If this made you unemployable for some period of time, then you have a decent case for slander, but if it's just garden variety bad mouthing, a jury won't be very sympathetic to getting dragged out of their lives to sit and listen to someone whine.
2006-09-02 03:55:09 · answer #2 · answered by Catspaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, unless you see something in writing, there is nothing you can do. This happened to me. I was black-balled just by an inflection of the voice. No words actually have to be said. Too bad these 'holier than thou' types do not realize we are all just trying to work and make a living.
2006-09-02 02:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by violetmax 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if you have irrefutable proof.
Why did you leave your old company? Were you fired for cause? Are you the type of employee that the company could very well do without?
2006-09-02 02:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by rb_cubed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋