(1)(a)
A current or former employer may disclose the following information about
a current or former employee's employment history to a prospective employer
of the current or former employee upon receipt of written consent from the
current or former employee:
(i)Date and duration
of employment;
(ii)Pay rate and wage history on the date of receipt of written consent;
(iii)Job description
and duties;
(iv)The most recent written performance evaluation prepared prior to the date
of the request and provided to the employee during the course of his or her
employment;
(v)Attendance information;
(vi)Results of drug or alcohol tests administered within one year prior to the
request;
(vii)Threats of violence, harassing acts, or threatening behavior related to the
workplace or directed at anot
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(1)(a)
A current or former employer may disclose the following information about
a current or former employee's employment history to a prospective employer
of the current or former employee upon receipt of written consent from the
current or former employee:
(i) Date and duration
of employment;
(ii)
Pay rate and wage history on the date of receipt of written consent;
(iii) Job description
and duties;
(iv)
The most recent written performance evaluation prepared prior to the date
of the request and provided to the employee during the course of his or her
employment;
(v)
Attendance information;
(vi)
Results of drug or alcohol tests administered within one year prior to the
request;
(vii)
Threats of violence, harassing acts, or threatening behavior related to the
workplace or directed at another employee;
(viii) Whether the employee was voluntarily or involuntarily
separated from employment and the reasons for the separation; and
(ix) Whether the employee
is eligible for rehire.
(b)
The current or former employer disclosing such information shall be presumed
to be acting in good faith and shall be immune from civil liability for the
disclosure or any consequences of such disclosure unless the presumption of
good faith is rebutted upon a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that
the information disclosed by the current or former employer was false, and
the current or former employer had knowledge of its falsity or acted with
malice or reckless disregard for the truth.
(2)(a) The consent required in subsection (1) of this
section shall be on a separate form from the application form or, if included
in the application form, shall be in bold letters and in larger typeface than
the largest typeface in the text of the application form. The consent form
shall state, at a minimum, language similar to the following:
I, (applicant), hereby
give consent to any and all prior employers of mine to provide information
with regard to my employment with prior employers to (prospective employer).
(b) The consent must be
signed and dated by the applicant.
(c) The consent will be valid for no longer than six
months.
(3)
This section shall also apply to any current or former employee, agent, or
other representative of the current or former employer who is authorized to
provide and who provides information in accordance with this section.
(4)(a) This section does
not require any prospective employer to request employment history on a prospective
employee and does not require any current or former employer to disclose employment
history to any prospective employer.
(b) Except as specifically amended in this section,
the common law of this state remains unchanged as it relates to providing
employment information on current and former employees.
(c) This section applies
only to causes of action accruing on and after July 19, 2012.
(5) The immunity conferred
by this section shall not apply when an employer discriminates or retaliates
against an employee because the employee has exercised or is believed to have
exercised any federal or state statutory right or undertaken any action encouraged
by the public policy of this state.