Tennessee § 50-1-105 Providing employee information to prospective employers - Good faith

Tennessee Statutes

§ 50-1-105 — Providing employee information to prospective employers - Good faith

Any employer that, upon request by a prospective employer or a current or former employee, provides truthful, fair and unbiased information about a current or former employee's job performance is presumed to be acting in good faith and is granted a qualified immunity for the disclosure and the consequences of the disclosure. The presumption of good faith is rebuttable upon a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that the information disclosed was:

(1)Knowingly false;

(2)Deliberately misleading;

(3)Disclosed for a malicious purpose;

(4)Disclosed in reckless disregard for its falsity or defamatory nature; or (5) Violative of the current or former employee's civil rights pursuant to current employment discrimination laws.

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Any employer that, upon request by a prospective employer or a current or former employee, provides truthful, fair and unbiased information about a current or former employee's job performance is presumed to be acting in good faith and is granted a qualified immunity for the disclosure and the consequences of the disclosure. The presumption of good faith is rebuttable upon a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that the information disclosed was: (1) Knowingly false; (2) Deliberately misleading; (3) Disclosed for a malicious purpose; (4) Disclosed in reckless disregard for its falsity or defamatory nature; or (5) Violative of the current or former employee's civil rights pursuant to current employment discrimination laws.

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