Will New HR take current employer’s HR references rather than Line manager?
Context: I’m currently in an onboarding process with a new company. But my manager is taking so long to provide reference even after multiple nudges in person and via teams and email. They said they will do it but nothing after 9 days now.
We are currently in an organisational change process with my current employer and looking at the landscape and my personal situation, I know I will be at the risk of redundancy due to new role proposed not meeting the new skill worker visa threshold. I’ve now secured a new role with a competitor and I told my line manager about it and they went on and on about how they see me in the new roles and I told them the salary doesn’t meet the threshold and it’s not something I want to do anyway. They kept saying it will be good for my professional development. However delaying my onboarding process with the new company.
The new company emailed me and said can I nudge my manager yesterday again to provide the reference as it’s delaying the onboarding process when it has been 8days now since the first nudge and they are not on holiday and this is a quiet period for us at work.
My previous employer too did not provide reference early as they were on holiday. I got to know quickly and I had to send an alternative referee.
My question now is can I skip my manager completely and provide the employee relations email for confirmation of employment or the HRs normally expect the reference from Line manager or how can I get them to do the reference on time. Do I keep emailing them.
I’m also skeptical about being that employee people don’t want to provide reference for even though it has nothing to do with me. I don’t know if that have a bad connotation in hr culture. And I don’t want to loose the offer due to delay. Given that the new employer will still apply for Certificate of sponsorship and all the processes delays start date.