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    I was working with a very well known telecoms company until 2015 when I was questioned by the companies security on allegedly having a company which could infringe on their business. This hadn’t happened, and the whole process continued for three months before I was offered a more senior role at another company so I resigned. They had wanted to bring me in to answer some more questions but to be honest the stress was unbearable and we had just lost our daughter, which is why I took the other position. Fast forward to now and I have been working to a telecoms training provider and my role was to train and assess engineers for the company I had previously worked for. I had been doing so for nearly six months and my work was impeccable and to the highest possible standards with my feedback being excellent. Until last week when I had to go into an office to source another piece of equipment as one I had was faulty. In the office there was a manager knew me from before when I worked for them directly. Nothing was said at all, it want until I’m driving home that the executive for my new company called me and said that he had received a phone call from someone the previous company and he said I was not allowed on any of their properties and that I had been dismissed from them. Now.........I was never dismissed at all I resigned, and I am pretty sure under GDPR that they are not allowed to tell anyone that I was dismissed (again this is untrue) and surely they are not allowed to dictate where or who I work for? They are severely restricting where I can work as they are the main telecoms company. Surely someone can not be continually punished, I also worked to them under a sub contractor previously for a year......again with an impeccable record and no issues. Please can someone help me as it is causing untold stress mentally and financially.
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    Are you employed directly by the new company? What, if anything, has your executive said following on from the fact that your old company no longer wants you working at any of their sites?

    If you were not dismissed, then you can at least confirm to your executive that that was the case. If the new company took out a reference on you from the old company and they asked the question as to why you left the likelihood it that is stated resignation otherwise they may have queried this with you at the time. So, no the person who contacted your new company should not have stated a reason for you leaving that was incorrect.
    In regard to the old company now requesting that they do not want you working on their sites then you may need to speak with your executive about firstly:
    1. Is there any clause in the contract/agreement between the two companies that allows your old company to request a member of staff from your new company be withdrawn from sites? I have actually heard of this type of clause being in contracts so of itself it is not unusual.
    2. However, what you need to see is whether you can ascertain that the person in your old firm making the request has the authority within the contract to do so.
    3. If not, has your executive queried this request with the relevant person in your old company, given the exemplary feedback you have had from your old company whilst working for them under a sub-contractor and with your new company?
    4. Is it likely that the person who you saw from your old company would hold a grudge against you?
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