A potential employer hired a third-party company to do background checks, employment verification etc. I authorized everything. I asked MB, senior HR personnel about adding my international employers which they said isn't required since it is expensive and not required for experience in this role. JS, MB's junior emailed me a week later for consent on adding my international employer for third party verification. I gave my consent and told JS what MB said. JS apologized for what MB said and said they need to verify. I asked JS if they needed the contact info of my international employer. JS didn't say anything and then asked for pay stubs/w2/income statement for an international employer. Previous work country didn't have W2 or equivalent forms. I don't have pay stubs with me but my employer might or not. This was more than 4-5 years ago. Should I contact my international employer? Should I tell JS to contact my international employer? JS never asked for my international employer's contact info, which a third-party company requires.
This whole conversation is weird to me. Third-party company can verify themselves. But JS didn't even bother to ask for international employer's contact info to give to third-party screening. JS's first email to me, also got my employer's name wrong and I corrected them. I asked if they needed contact info but no reply on this. What are they trying to do? I hope JS doesn't have the wrong employer info.
Update: My hunches were right. My state makes it illegal for employers to ask for pay stubs from former jobs. I kept on asking JS if they needed my former employer's contact info for verification and JS never addressed that question. As if wanting to deflect the issue. They wanted to know my former salary to gauge the salary offer for this role. I still provided them with my former employer's contact info for verification purposes to be diplomatic about this situation. Because the department I applied to has an excellent reputation even if HR doesn't.