Employer Reference

This is the reference that is used to identify an employer. From June 2000 all new employer references are computer generated.

Employer references will always consist of the 3 digit office numeral and either a

• Manually allocated reference

• Which must be between 1 and 10 characters

• The first character of which must be in the range A – Z or 0 – 9

And

• The second to tenth characters must only be A-Z, 0-9, -, \, / or space

Or

• Computer allocated reference which is 7 characters in the format Aznnnnn, where

• ‘A’ is an alphabetic sequential character (not the initial letter of the employer’s name)

• ‘Z’ is a fixed character using the least used in alpha references

• ‘nnnnn’ are 5 numeric characters