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A random voice on the phone requests payroll and address information; the information available cannot be verified, and you're thinking this is a defendable position?

Even if it doesn't violate any specific laws, the employer could still end up on the wrong side of a lawsuit.

(I never said there was anything criminal about it.)
not saying it is a defensible position. Just saying in itself, I do not see anything illegal about it or likely even actionable. As I said, most of the info is available to any company that is calling for a reference anyway. Why would it be any more egregious to release it to some random person?


and in that light; how do you know that Bob from XYZ company calling for a reference is actually Bob from XYZ company and not the pissed off ex husband Dick?