SPP 1104: Job References

To provide information in response to job reference requests from prospective employers

Arizona Revised Statutes § 23–1361

Classified, service professional, and administrative staff

Supervisors may provide a requesting employer information concerning a current or former staff member’s education, training, experience, qualifications, or job performance to be used for the purpose of evaluating the staff member for employment. A copy of any written communication must be sent to the staff member’s last known address.

Supervisors are immune from civil liability in connection with providing information to a prospective employer unless all of the following are found to exist:

1. the information is false

   and

2. the information tends to bring the staff member into disrepute, contempt, or ridicule

   and

3. the information is acted on to the harm of the staff member by the prospective employer

   and

4. the supervisor knows the information is false or entertains serious doubts about its truth.

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