Depending on your industry, you may not get any reference anyway.<p>My references for the last 3 jobs over 6 years has been &quot;Yes, he was employed here from $startdate to $enddate as $jobtitle&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s it, to avoid any risk of there being any liability issue.<p>It&#x27;s gone from &quot;you&#x27;re not allowed to give a negative reference&quot; to &quot;why bother doing anything more than the bare minimum&quot; in a number of industries I&#x27;ve been in.