Employment Records

Dexter888

Hi,

My father worked in a company in 1972 but he has no way of officially verifying his start date which he needs to do now.

PRSI and tax paid were not associated with any particular company pre 1979, there are records of his payment of these but not what company he worked for at the time.

He needs to be able to verify his start date in this company that has since been dissolved in the mid 80's. The building where the company was located has since been knocked over 20 years ago so no paper records exist on site.

I have contacted Citizens Information and the Workplace Relations Commission but they cant think of any way to verify the start date.

Any ideas?

Thanks

CIARAN_BOYLE

Dexter888 wrote: »

Hi,

My father worked in a company in 1972 but he has no way of officially verifying his start date which he needs to do now.

PRSI and tax paid were not associated with any particular company pre 1979, there are records of his payment of these but not what company he worked for at the time.

He needs to be able to verify his start date in this company that has since been dissolved in the mid 80's. The building where the company was located has since been knocked over 20 years ago so no paper records exist on site.

I have contacted Citizens Information and the Workplace Relations Commission but they cant think of any way to verify the start date.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Revenue should have the information but it would be in hard copy warehouses which take Revenue months to access and find. It would help if you had the taxes registration number.

livedadream

Companies only need to keep records for a certain time frame

data protection is not very clear on it either: 'not be kept longer than necessary for the purpose for which it was processed'

in general I encourage companies to keep records from the date you left for 7 years after. the Law requires approx 6 years so I leave a buffer just in case.


as the company is obsolete now there is little to no change of those records existing.

Revenue dont keep the records that long either so unless there was a new article about him starting i'm fresh out of ideas.

the only way of knowing is your fathers own records, if he had payslips or cheques in a bank account or something.

Dexter888

Thanks for the replies, ya I had gone down the Revenue route alright and from 1979 on they have the records as tax paid would be tied to a particular company (employer) but prior to this the tax paid had no employer reference.

I'll check with him to see how he got paid..cheque/bank a/c etc as this might be the route to progress but if anyone has any other ideas I'd be open to hearing them.

Thanks