The best solution results from an operating company signing up with Blue Planet before operations cease. However, if you are an owner or officer of a defunct company, and you have the employment records, we can help. Do your former employees a favor, and earn some money too. If you are an employee of a defunct company in need of a reference, please visit our site for employees at Your-References.com.

Losing your job is a terrible experience, but it is made even worse when a company goes under. Being fired is one thing, but when a company goes under much more than just the job is lost. This can include the value of stock purchased, stock options, retirement accounts, and much more, to say nothing of all the work, effort and emotional energy put into a business. This is made even worse and continues to carry negative effects when out looking for a new job and having no verification of the previous employment. This puts the applicate at a great disadvantage compared to the competition which likely does not have this problem. If you are a owner, officer, HR employee or in another position where you have employment records, you can do a great service for the former employees.

Even if you do not have employee records but were in a position to have knowledge of employee's in the company, such as being an owner, officer, department head, supervisor, foreman or a similar position, you can still help and earn a commission. Please complete the form for employment knowledge linked at the bottom of the page. We will contact you when we have a reference request for that business. There are many defunct companies where the employment records were not preserved. In this case, we have a process to reconstruct these records though research and contact information we collect. We are most interested in businesses that have failed recently, although we will accept records for companies that have failed within the last five years provided they are large enough. We do not have an arbitrary minimum size, each situation is considered on various merits. The sooner after the business fails, the more useful the records are.

If we do not have any demand for human resource references for your company, we will still accept them and store them until such time as there is interest, provided they are in a database format. You will be notified when there are requests and you will receive a commission based upon our rate for old records.

If the records are in paper form, we can not accept them until such time as there is a demand for one or more of them. We urge you to preserve and keep those records safe until such time as they are needed or our suggested time period has expired.

Commissions for the records of defunct companies are based on how long the company has been out of business and the number of former employees it had. Former employees include all the employees that worked for the company at any time within the last five years, not just those separated when the company went under. Commission rates range from 5 percent to 15 percent.

Please email us or use our online form linked below to provide the relevant information.

For more information, please call our Customer Service number at 305-849-5020 or our Toll Free number at 1-800-518-1206. Email us at links@employee-references.com.

Thank you for your interest.